Living on a Narrowboat
Yah! I leiked the yellow one!
The Chinese are fond of selling helpless little animals, be they turtles, chicks or little bunnies…
They also have goldfish…
I’m not sure about the prices on them. I always feel sorry for them as I pass them by.
In Summary…
The views are tremendous and the queues are horrendous….
Ever wondered what is making your boot times so slow?
When you start up there’s a number of programs that run in the background.
Depending on how much junk you download and install on your machine, there may be a few of these or there may be many.
Maybe it’s a recent program you may have installed that you suspect is slowing your machine down…
Either way, I found this handy software which can list the programs and their respective contributions to the start-up time of your machine.
This hasn’t cut a lot of time of my machine, but it is quite handy and well designed.
If you want to reduce the time you spend waiting for your machine and potentially improve it’s operating speeds and lesson it’s carbon footprint, then this might be a fun software for you.
Had a slight issue with typhoon rainwater on the way to work which resulted in my being 15 mins late.
When I finished work the floods had got much worse.
School was WET, and I fell in a puddle.
You’ll find the Huangshan Hot Springs a short ride down from the west entrance to the park.
Buy a ticket on the bus for 8 yuan. Alternatively , walk down , it’s 1.5km and signposted.
I’d done enough walking for the day.°
These springs are run by Best Western. A hotel chain that Franchises residences worldwide.
They aren’t the best hotels, but they do have a good general standard. Some of them are in unusual locations, like this one, and the quality is generally good.
There were a selection of 8 different pools, all fed from the natural hot springs at the foot of the mountains. Each spring had a different property introduced by the owner. There was —
Citrus Spring – Infused with lemon and other citrus. The spring was said to introduce the natural vitamin C through the skin. 38°C
Tea Spring – Infused with green tea. Didn’t see any leaves. Felt like a normal spring. Said to aid the dissolution of anti-oxidants in the skin. 40°C.
Sand bath – Basically, pebbles of sand in a deep pool of hot, sulphourus spring water.
Fish Spring – Filled with tiny living fishies. The fishies come up and eat your dead skin. You have to be careful as not to stand on the little blighters when you get in. Tickles at first. This was definitely fun, and something I’ve not seen before. 40°C
Hot Spring – Just a normal hot spring. 40°C.
Monkey Spring – Hot with a large monkey pouring out water on the Chinese below… Hot 40+°C.
Roman Spring – In a Roman style. Large and opulent. 38°C
Roman Bath – In a circular ‘bath’ style. 30+°C
As well as the facilities which included a steam room and sauna, (my favorite).
Came out of here feeling a lot better for my soak. Took the taxi down to town which cost another 20 yuan.
Comes well recommended if you happen to be up that way.
Nice.