Rain

Lead grey skies, muddy tarry streets, dark and coldish. No, not Wellington, but Chengdu. It's entering the Winter season all right. In Tibet it is apparently fluctuating around the zero mark, at least it will be dry.
Also the street outside the hostel has been dug up, they're improving the whole area. We wake at 7 each morning to jackhammering, skilsawing, hammering, earth moving, pile driving, trench digging. And the occasional feeble rooster.