While preparing for our alpine walk in the afternoon Fritz, the institute’s porter, pulled me aside informing me three Chinese diplomats (verified by showing their credentials)insisted upon seeing me but due to a strict no contact or visitor’s policy Fritz would not let them enter the premises. Although with ten 100 Euro banknotes and a healthy supply of the famed Guangzhou dried mushrooms Fritz did agree to take to me a hastily scribbled note on which a postcard of a sculptured Westie displayed at Suhewan MixC World in Shanghai’s Jing’an’s district was attached. The note said, “Comrade Rory, please contact the Chinese Embassy in Bern at your earliest convenience concerning the upcoming Chinese Canada Friendship Tour. Signed Ming Tan.”
And as we headed up the slope of Mount Vouno were those three Chinese men in the parking lot spying on me with binoculars?
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