Great start as daddy found our luggage in the lobby. None of what I washed last night was dry so I was dreading getting dressed. So we all got clean clothes which we appreciated. Daddy got more tea bags too, he was down to his last two.
Our guide was very snotty about 'hotels in the east side of the town' last night. But I have to say Yanling is a fantastic place to stay. Breakfast is absolutely huge (better than their dinner setting) and beds better than average in China scale. I would say a soft brick, which is praise indeed. But best of all we are about ten meters from an underground and that means it does not matter at all what the address is, we are ten minutes from the town centre. And the only white faces in the tube or around the town in general bar Shamian Island.
We kind of thought it warm but overcast but as we were smooching round the jade markets the heavens opened and the temperature dropped dramatically. My mood was not improved by jade prices (starting 40p a small bead) or the sellers disinterest to bargaining. We were pretty much soaked through despite umbrellas and retreated to Maccy D's for lunch. Glo' now refuses to eat chips :-(
Got so cold we walked to the Shamian island Starbucks for a warm drink (complete with mock fire and jazz). Shamian has so gone up in the world. No more washing hanging from the side streets, the old buildings are mainly restored and Victory is now rather a posh bit.
Feeling a lot better we headed across the river to the biggest ever puppet world. Not only shows for kids but a museum, workshops etc. Only it is not open during the week despite their website saying so. There was a lady there who kindly sold us Monkey King puppets. However the sun was out and it was nice to keep going down the streets looking at people around us.
Found the underground again and headed to the gigantic fabric wholesale market which was fabby dabby for mummy. I got some bits but usually smallest quantity was 100, sometimes 2000 for smaller items and no idea how many metres for fabric. Met the other western face of the day there too.
We cancelled this evening dinner meeting and headed to hotel. I emptied my cases this morning (wanted to see nothing was missing) and now needed to start packing for tomorrow. Glo' was exhausted so it was early supper for her. Daddy insisted of inspecting every dish on the hotel supper buffet and then decided it was no use - we headed across the road (another deadly pedestrian crossing across a four lane motorway) to see the restaurants there. Ended up with a Hunan kitchen. The staff had equal amount of English to our Mandarin, the food was spicy to say the least, but we got fed.
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