Aftermath

It's been almost a week since I got back to Sweden. I don't really have much more to say about China at the moment, except that five weeks in the middle of summer was far too little time. This blog might very well be updated sometime in the future as I set out on another journey to the east but as of now nothing is certain.

My last week in China was spent at restaurants, mah-jong tables and in shopping districts. Returning to Jiangsu I visited the town of Yangzhou, home of former president Jiang Zemin. The train station was modern and large, no doubt built after receiving special funds from "someone up high", or so people were saying.

Yangzhou was yet another example of a smaller prospering east China town, famous for its pickles and Slender west lake, both of which I enjoyed during my short stay. The lake in question is encapsuled by a park filled with bridges, pagodas and pavillions and is in itself worthy of a one day trip out of Shanghai. Most tourists finding their way here are Chinese.

Overgrown bridge:


I left Shanghai around lunch time on one of this summer's many hot days and landed in a rainy Denmark roughly eleven hours later. So far I haven't been able to cope with the lack of cheap dinners and the uneventful evenings.

Lastly I would like to thank everyone who made this trip my best ever. An extra big "thank you" to those who showed me around - Sunny in Suzhou, Man Hen and Beast in Shanghai, Chu Nan and Wang Shuo in Beijing - and to those who let me stay in their homes - Grace, and of course the Xing/Chu family. Also thanks to everyone else who spent time with me, drove me around etc. You rule, I hope I've made that clear enough before.

And of course, big thanks to you for reading this!

I'm not good at writing endings, so let's go with a "to be continued"... We'll meet again.