Mountian biking

Trip Start Nov 03, 2008
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Trip End May 2009


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Flag of China  , Guangxi Zhuang,
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I did some last minute haggling with Luke in Yangshou in the morning....typical bloke needed trousers and a woman to sort it out : o ) it was easier getting a better price when its for someone else.
In the aftertnoon we picked up our bikes....hmmm not exactly state of the art, more like state of the ark. Mine had no gears, which turned out to be an advantage as the ones with the 27 gears only worked in high or low and nothing in between. We did some very serious off road stuff on narrow paths with loose stones and crossed a river to get into the "real" China that most of us came to see. We had an amazing lunch in a village, having worked up an appetite we scoffed everything, even the tofu, the fav dish was the roasted pumpkin. We called in on a local school called Hope School, its named beacuase it is a "free school" built from charity for the poorer village kids to give them hope for the future. They have to walk a couple of hours each day to get there Andy = " what brakes"?
Andy = " what brakes"?
 . We arrived at morning break and they came out , lined up and started to do their exercises to music.....Bri joined in at the back, much to the kids amusement at the funny white man. Mable

What a fab day, mountain biking in rural China, great weather, Andy falling off into a river and Mac joining in with the kids doing their keep fit.  His natural rhythm really kicked in and they appeared to love it.

The Outside In Lodge was great but got chiily in the evening AND not all the showers worked,,,, ours did and we rented it out, to date Kristina has not paid us! Food was great including breakfast (in fact the best so far) and beer cheap.

This was the real China, rice field, ox pulling ploughs, suicidal chickens and  rabid dogs.  Do this trip it was FANTASTIC.
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patmartin17
patmartin17 on Nov 21, 2008 at 11:09PM

Dad
I loaded this site onto Dad's computer and he is always the first to shout down that a new entry had been made, so he is totally hooked and loves all the comments and pixs so far. I have noticed that it is Mabel doing most of the writing with the odd comment from you - keep up the good work Carol. By-the-way. Lewis is also 'hooked' an is is wanting to tell his teacher - good idea or not???

Loves ya both and take care Mum xxxx

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