Living on a Narrowboat
So….
Here i am at Haungshan station.
Caught the train in last night .
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.
Site of the Nanjing massacre and home to the Ming Dynasty. The mighty Nanjing has undergone some tumultuous times… It was once capital and carried out all the administrative duties of the empire named Nanking.
The city is like Chengdu. It’s got large tree lined boulevards. Elms competing with the high-rise for sky space. It’s a like parts of Rio, leafy but built up.
I travel into town in the metro. I take a look around some of the main sights. I won’t go into them in any vast detail, but just to give you a general overview of what the city is about.
Here is a map of the main sights around Nanjing.
Authentic Chinese restaurant
Of all of them, I’d say I liked the Mausoleum the most, it was free to get in and had the best views of the city. Very nice experience.
Zhonghua gate was good also.
I’d like to go again. Nanjing is a nice place to hang out.
It’s less of a work in progress than this Shanghai area, which is preparing itself for the opening up of a free-trade zone in the next couple of weeks.
This means that Shanghai and the surrounding area, (of which we’re part), will be the subject of some extensive growth.
The Chinese are trying to cash in on this by throwing up all number of buildings and developments in the hope that the economy will explode. Nanjing is not subject to that level of growth and it shows.
It’s nice not to be surrounded by cranes and live on a constant building site, which is what it sometimes feels like here.
Had the advantage of standing next to French bloke in queue yesterday.
He spoke Chinese fluently. This was lucky as the girl was refusing to understand my requests.
As I gave the information each bit was thouroughly scrutinised and highlighted for wrongness, which was duly corrected.
This is a moment when French piquant was used to good effect.
I avoided the seatless trains.
Thanked my French friend.
Am now waiting at the station.
Here’s a picture.
The journey takes about 2.5 hours.
Had to go and pick this up. I fell asleep on the bus. I woke up surrounded by Chinese.
In the office, they gave me money, then took it back.
They gave me a card.
This means I can now steal bikes legally all over Kunshan.
So.
Nice little accident. First i’ve seen to date.
E-bike meets car.
Not a serious accident and no-one was hurt.
Looks like he swerved off into the traffic, (normal behavior for e-bike riders), and is probably wondering why someone hit him.
Don’t care?
As I was taking the picture, someone decided to park up and begin a fixed turn. Three point.
Reversing out, manuevering parking again, stopping, moving out. Horns blaring all the while.
Accident behind.
Eventually, a passenger popped out the back. Making it all seem like a cul-de-sac drop off.
I guess that’s the scene in China, Mirror, signal, don’t care.
I guess that’s what the shared responsibility of communism does for you.
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