Neil Gaiman describes his visit to China - complete with pandas, conference highlights, and lots of food. Sounds like a great time. Here’s a great quote and a picture of him holding a panda.

Let’s see. Pandas. I knew about the Chengdu Panda reserve because I had a friend who worked there for a summer. Really, it was all I knew about Chengdu. It’s lovely. And it’s a wonderful thing being an honoured foreign guest somewhere like that — you get shown all the cool stuff, get to see Pandas, red ones and giant ones, and then find yourself put in a blue disposable smock and gloves (to protect the pandas from you, asnd not the other way around) and you get a year-old Panda placed on your lap. Utter, utter happiness. Better than any number of awards. Makes being a writer completely worthwhile. I suspect that world peace and harmony would come about in weeks if people just got to put pandas on their laps every few months. Honest.

Don’t you want to hold one too?

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