Beautiful morning, took some photos from my hotel, so Mia could also enjoy the new environment a bit 
Discovered that bloody Movistar (from Telefonica), where I bought my prepaid phone card from yesterday, doesn’t have an agreement with China Mobile and therefore sms is not possible between Spain and China on their network. Luckily Skype works well to contact Mia and there is always email and phone…
Did some work and more walking around through this beautiful city and tried my luck at some real estate agents. Unfortunately hardly anyone speaks English (where did I experience that too?) and if you cannot speak Spanish many of them are not even interested to assist…
Back online I had more luck. Rod, an Italian guy who has been here for four months called me back immediately. I had already had contact with him in China, so it was nice to finally meet him. He showed me a home which was not that good, but promised me to keep looking.
One thing I noted today is that elevators here (probably like everywhere else in the world, but China) have the actual 0 or B for the ground floor. Many times I have made the mistake already to press 1 when going down, which means that I arrive on the first floor and not the ground floor. Strange how after 10 years these – seemingly normal – things actually change in your mind…