Friday, March 30, 2007
Summer palace
After this morning early rain, I caught a bus to the centre and did some mooching and shopping.
Then anohter bus to the summer palace over an hour away.
I was pleased that I was able to convey clearly to the conductor where I wanted to go and apy.
My mistake became clear about an hour later when the conductor encouraged me to get off because I had clearly enunciated completely ther wrong destination.
She gave up after a while and I ended up at the Summer Palace - a huuge (did I mention that everything is big here?) park with many magnificent buildings. And lots of people, 99% at least Chinese. Nowhere here is empty.
A lovely lakeside spot to eat my lunchtime noodles.
Back via an Internet cafe to blog some of this.
Then anohter bus to the summer palace over an hour away.
I was pleased that I was able to convey clearly to the conductor where I wanted to go and apy.
My mistake became clear about an hour later when the conductor encouraged me to get off because I had clearly enunciated completely ther wrong destination.
She gave up after a while and I ended up at the Summer Palace - a huuge (did I mention that everything is big here?) park with many magnificent buildings. And lots of people, 99% at least Chinese. Nowhere here is empty.
A lovely lakeside spot to eat my lunchtime noodles.
Back via an Internet cafe to blog some of this.
# posted by David @ 4:15 am 
