Sunday 25th August After a great meal last night and lashings of ice cold beer we all had a good nights sleep, well I did. We broke camp early as the mosquito were still rampant, though for some reason I did not notice them last night. We knew we had a small town in 200 or so miles so breakfast was not an issue. We came to the small town very quickly,found a place that had just opened, with the owner very pleased to welcome us in, some friendly local also joined in and made sure we did not order to much, once again really good local food, we have all been very impressed with he food so far in China. As we were eating the police made their appearance on an electric scooter, they took are passports and said they would be back in a few minutes,which they duly did, what they did not say was that they would be following us all day! As we set off we had a few road works to navigate aka Ukraine, only for a few hundred meters so no big problem,then the police stopped us again, need clarification on where we were going, we said the same again and carried on, though once we were on the open road it was fairly obvious that we had a tail, Keith reckons the number plate finished with 008, non confirmed as I can barely see the car never mind the number plate. We just rode on knowing that we had at least another 50 miles to the next stop. As we rode on every summit or corner hoping for a little oasis, but to no avail. We cam across a brick building , unfortunately not a cafe, though they did let us in, we filled up are bottles from a tank ( not good kept them for emergencies), then because we are happy souls some locals on a picnic stop in the desert! offered us some melons, apples and water (we ditched the other water) we had a great 10 minutes with them, with the normal photo shoot. Once we started up again the tail soon found us, we came to a small police check, they just let us through but did not fill are water bottles up, So we pushed on looking for a place to camp, we pulled over my a workers camp and watched are tail go back and forth, but did not engage with us. Eventually we could not wait any longer, put the tents up see what happens, so we crossed the road found a site and did just that, Keith went in the tent, Linney and I had a snooze on the sand, dreaming of Barbados! the tail just watched us. When we cam around it was pot noddle time (definitely not Barbados), with are water supply not good, I decided to go over to the workers compound and fill up are 5 litre water container for cooking.. It was a bit surreal the women shouting at me and the tail, then took the bottle and filled it up for us and smiled as she gave it back to me, with my normal charm I bowed and said chee chee (thank you in Chinese) All good had are pot noddles, coffee and biscuits then bed, though it was a bit disconcerting when the night shift turned up, we thought we may be moved on, but all was good.