Tuesday, 5 February 2013

A cold Feb walk round LiGongDi and Jinji Lake

Marking finished and ans a walk in attempt to blow away the cobwebs, learn how to walk againa fter sitting for nearly 2 weeks marking and to try to relieve the headache that had been niggling for a few days.
Cold, misty morning and Ligongdi at night is usually a thriving hub of bars and restaurants of all nationalities but like any good area that is known for its night life during the day time it is like a ghost town.
 
 
Start of the walk as I come out of the apartment block
 
 
This is where I am going
 
 
A restaurant
 
 
 
Scary giant babies in capes and red baby grows welcome in the new year
 
 
A land of bridges both in the old towns and the new
 
 
Interested place, never been there but I like the title
 
 
More bridges
 
 
Whatever happened to Steak and chips, or steak and a pint where did steak and a cigar come in
 
 
Same bridge different angle
 
 
 
Statues are everywhere a little like a sculpture trail
 
 
Bridge again
 
 
Giant crab......theres a worry
 
 
If only it was not closed down that is where I would spend my evenings



 
Amazing how lovely cabbages can look and at this time of year.

 
Why would the chinese put a sculpture of Don Quixote by their lake

 
Scary scarecrow people

 
and the band played on

 
Could we be in a remote hidden part of Wales

 
This was amusing

 
Where is captain hook?

 
The trousers, scarily huge, the Gateway to the Orient.


3 comments:

  1. It is quite liberating when you have finished your marking, isn't it? I have finished my own marking now as well. It is marking specimen scripts now, but that is not too bad.
    Your pictures are amazing. As an outsider I find that the Chinese combine European features and Chinese features in a somewhat surprising way.
    Enjoy your time with your visitors.

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  2. Love the photos....I thought the place would be overun with people but it looks quite deserted...what time of day did you go?

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  3. It is a place that comes alive at night and during the day it is dead whislt everyone recovers, but it has restaurants, bars, tea houses from western and chinese asian countries.

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