Thursday, June 04, 2009

Back in Pingguo with a horological similarity

Up at 7.30am to have bite to eat and get hotel taxi to airport. Flight to Nanning was on time and uneventful. Met A Wu, A Ni and Chen Mei at airport where we got into A Wu's new car (a 20 year old Nissan Cefiro) and Chen Mei's nice white BMW.
Flew up to Pingguo at 150kph and got there in under 90 mins to have a nice meal in an air-conditioned room, followed by couple of hours kip in our house. Unfortunately our house is on the sweat-inducing 5th floor and our luggage was pretty heavy. Worse than that we are pretty much central, which means that there is loud music blaring out from 8am till after 9pm. Worse than that it is only four songs - 'All Rise', by Blue, plus 'Always Come Back To Your Love' (Samantha Mumba?), and a couple of other English ones that are driving us mad.
In the late afternoon And and I got a couple of SIM cards then went to eat and later had bbq.

Can you see a horological similarity between the photos taken on my first time to Pingguo and the one And took on our first evening?


Pingguo Bus Station in November 2003


Pingguo Bus Station by night in June 2009

That's right - they haven't fixed the clock for over 5 years. Well at least it's right twice a day.

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