Left the hotel at 8.00 for the airport.Said goodbye to Lucy and Zhou. Arrived Guangzhou at 12.30 met by Conan – again. He'd remembered some people had wanted camera cards and asked whether they'd obtained them or not. Went to Pedestrian Shopping Street. Shopping much better in Beijing markets although many managed to stock up on extra things. I think I may have bought another handbag. Lunch on plane at 10.30. Farewell dinner tonight at Brazil BBQ which everyone loved – lots of meat. Some interesting very small birds on a skewer. Never seen so much dessert eaten by so few. There was a live band which everyone appreciated. Was going to hand out awards but impossible because of table configuration and noise from the band. Will have to mail them out. I took the liberty of giving myself the Mathematics Award - for excellence in counting to 24 - our number of passengers (sometimes I even got to 25). Our guide Conan, sang a song for us with the band and he was quite good. I think everyone is now looking forward to going home which is probably a good thing, because we have no choice..
Our guide - Conan - singing for us
