We took a night sleeper train from Beijing to Pingyao; a small walled city that has retained it’s traditional architecture and way of life. The buildings are all made from the same grey stone and no building except the pagodas exceeds two stories. It’s often used for movie sets and we could easily imagine Chinese warriors running across the rooftops Crouching Tiger style.
The old-world charm was slightly dented thanks to an International photography exhibition taking place on the same weekend. The village was rammed with photographers sporting some of the most impressive looking camera equipment we’ve have ever seen. They seemed as interested in photographing us as the scenery, though we’re getting used to our new found celebrity status in China.
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4 comments so far
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Helen, is your face permanently fixed into that smile???? it looks the same on all 3 photos!
Everywhere looks great, and so much better now I can scroll through the pics rather than having to open each one!!
Jacq
PS. We’re not offended that you’ve not phoned us yet - just ‘cos we’re not in the skype crew
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Hey Jacq, how did you manage to get a comment on before me?????????…..& how do you scroll thru the photo’s I’m still opening one at a time……….Hello H&M enjoyed reading the next episode of the Blog & all the pics of the very smiley Chinese. Hope the journey into Hong Kong went well, talk again soon
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I’ve sorted it opening the photo’s…….I didn’t notice the little white arrows before………much better thank you.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
How rude Jacq, you’ve made me very paranoid about my smile…I’m just very happy! Let us know when you’re in the skype crew and then we’ll phone you. Glad the images work for you now. Hopefully they should work for lots of people who couldn’t see them originally, please let us now.
The second smiley Chinese lady really reminded Mark and I of Margaret K, she was lovely and kept telling us to buy her tea for our mamma. Keep the comments coming! love us xx
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