Breakfast is set for 6:45am for those on the ‘White Emperor City’ shore visit (an extra at ¥260 each). I think in Lonely Planet it’s called White King City. Liam sleeps in, while Ky and I share breakfast with Rose. She talks about their recent trip to Kamchatka with bears and volcanoes (I know the name of the region well from a board game I played thirty years ago – strange how little things come back to you). In the background disturbing music plays quietly: Instrumental versions of ‘Memories’, ‘Hello’, and ‘Sound of Silence’. They don’t play the Titanic theme song. I wonder why? It is a puzzle to Ky and I as to why the boat would play western theme music on a Chinese built boat, on a Chinese river, surrounded by Chinese decorations, to
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