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Chink in the Wall

….some jottings of my latest Chinese adventure

(Inspired by Chris Upson's Korean adventure... click to read)

Last Saturday (20^th Sept) I went to the Jiayu Pass in Ganshu and on a whim, a rickshaw and two coolie-carts decided to run the Great Wall of China. Weather utter pish. Gley row croud. Dlizzle and 100% humility.

Left Yellow Peril Hotel, Cheongsam at 5:20 am and another whim decided to head for the Mouth of the Yalu River in Liaong Province, (end to end 6400 Km) along the most visible from space wall in China. It was getting a bit Nippy.

Totally wrecked when I reached the final tullet. Visibirity was terrible.  It was a real chicken noodler. For the final mile or so, a nice guy called Jay-dee San spontaneously started running alongside. I kept the pace nice and steady – but then his clanial nerve started thlobbing and he notched it up till we were both going flat out . He lather unfairly pushed me into the deer fence at the end of the wall after our splint finish. What a bastard.

The Wan-Li Qang Qeng Traverse is fully 6400Km and is supposed to take normal hikers 100 days. I managed it in just under 8 hours – and it was laining! Saw thousands of millions of other hikers, but not a single person who wasn’t a completely Marilyn-obsessive lunatic in shorts and bumbag and bright yellow vest!

Merrow Yerrow

(ah-so).