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Janet was working in the Guangzhou (Canton) office - so I went up there for the weekend - by train - very civilised....
Arrived (only 2 hours from Hong Kong) in the morning of Saturday 12th and wandered around the town - similar the next day - but also then caught the train back to HK.
Into parks, markets and then the old "foreign quarter" of the city Shamian Island - bought some paintings there
this was a massive wooden
building (well old)....
A better view...
These are all Shamian island.
And I think this is in the
garden of the White Swan Hotel - also on Shamian.
I liked the buildings, big,
old - quite Western..
But of course - well
jumbled.... right in the centre of the piccie (sort of fading into the sky) - is
what looked like one of those big cement mixers (that you see on the back of
lorries - mixing the cement as they drive) - I guess it was some sort of
Air-con, water-cooling gubbins...?? but it did look very out of place amongst
such lovely old houses/buildings!
One silly story to relate... on the train (night-time) going back to Hong Kong - out the windows was rural China.. dark, mysterious, nothing to see except the occasional neon light off in the distance. After about 2 hours of this - the train slowed and we came into a city/station - initially we saw lots of lights, then glittering hotels and roads with lots of entertainment and I thought to myself "hooray - back in Hong Kong" - a short while later we pulled into Shenzhen station - we were still in China - but the difference between rural and city was like chalk and cheese.