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Lazy morning in Henggangcun
... player. My adaptor has as usual proved useless. In Changsha they have combination sockets, a Chinese2 or 3 prong (similar to the US), and a European style 2 prong. So no problems there. Out here only the Chinese kind. Luckily my laptop works for ages, and so used to charge the others.
Noodles with meat for breakfast again. Don’t think I could ever get used to that. Chinese food is really excellent generally (if a bit samey in some weird way as the diversity is ...
Qing Ming Festival in Henggangcun
... decorations (similar to old-style British Christmas decorations or Danish New Year's decorations) on trees around the gravestone, lighting incense, bowing in front of the tomb stone, all cool so far.
Then they let off copious amounts of bangers. Fireworks, with just smoke. Bloody awful racket, and everyone just stands right next to the whole lot. After the first time, I found a necessary solution for my ears! Putting hoods up and paper in ...
Off to "our countryside"
... she came home again everyone wanted to follow here there. She is still there. Has an ok job by the sounds of it. Not a factory worker on the production line. A production consultant. Reminds me of a book I started before coming to China - "Factory Girls" by Leslie T Chang (an Chinese American) http://leslietchang.com/book2.html
She encouraged me heartily to visit Shenzhen one weekend or around 1st May when there is another holiday. An offer I will take up. She tells me ...
The day we caught the train
... of this entry is inspired from the Ocean Colour Scene track that me, Craig and Lorne got stuck in our heads in Changde.
3. Lorne has headed home, he found both Shaoyang and the lack of decent training facilities a massive issue. He wanted to get back to full fitness and the lack of rowing machines and a complete lack of greens or protein in Chinese food didn't help ...
Snails, Trails and Buses
... hotel. His room is really nice and everything appears to work which is a first for China. So after getting my 8 hours, I was back at the entrance waiting for a bus at 6 (yes 6) am. I managed to flag a bus and after meeting a English Teacher at a local school who helped massively I managed to negotiate a change of buses at 'godknowswhere' and by 8ish I was rumbling into Yiyang.
After a shower, rest and a oral lesson, Noah offered to ...
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