1) Haul yourself out of bed at 3am.
2) Haul your ass down to the transit interchange. (Almost directly opposite the KFC and NEXT TO THE SINOPEC).
3) Queue for a ticket to catch the bus . You will need to catch a bus into the park this is the only way.
“You buy ticket to wicket?!!?”
4) Arrive at the park and buy a ticket for the MOUNTAIN and the CABLE CAR , to reach the Goose peak plateau for sunrise.
5) Prepare for some walking…
I walked around most of the sights, but the signs aren’t that good.
Take your own food and water. You’ll be paying out of the nose for these.
After a couple of minutes sitting round and being sold things by the various people at the Huangshan bus station, the bus arrives.
I almost miss it, but finish up in the little restaurant which sells coffee and juice drinks just in time to be the last passenger to get on.
The bus takes us along the expressway, up into the hills close to the foot of the Yellow Mountain park.
I’m staying at the One Hostel. It has internet access, which is more than can be said for the C2C last night, which cost twice as much and served a school dinner style breakfast. I had one chop stick to eat it with. Eating breakfast with one chopstick is not very easy, the C2C need to take note of this…
Here’s some snaps I took out of the window.
Tangkouzhen
Anyway, at new hotel now. Located downtown. Here’s a map.
Will stay here for a couple of days. I’ve got to climb the mountain tomorrow and also visit the hot springs, for an after climb bath…
Have been told i need to catch a bus to Tangkou town.
First by the woman at the hostel I need to travel to today. She gave me the address of a bus station they tried to take me to that was out of town… Now at a bus station which is in town outside the main train station in town.
He had problems with meeting his responsibilities , and at the weekend had a bottle of beer. Or two , some Bacardi , and also some vodka.
I disappeared for the weekend , went to Nanjing.
When I came back, I heard the sound of tins being opened early in the morning.
About 6am.
This isn’t the first time this has happened.
Last weekend he drank all my brandy and the police came round because he was outside smashing things up.
He had a habit of sleeping in odd places ‘close to nature’.
People would wake me to come to the aid of Edward, outside, in a pool of his own wee (or whatever ). Sometimes he was conscious , sometimes not.
China has it’s fair share of alcoholic teachers.
The Russian I used to work with was drunk 24/7.
One of the other teachers commented “I never realized he was drunk till I saw him sober .”
Another stocked up on Bijiou to get him through his day at Kindle.
On Monday it all came to a head when Ed turned up for work on the sauce.
Police were called. Poor Eddie had to spend the best part of the day in the cells explaining and clearing things up with the Chinese authorities 。
Employers , linestart have threatened to blackball him.
Effectively making it impossible for him to get work in China.
There’s a letter.
China blackballed
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