Saturday, August 13, 2005


Huaihua - centre - overpass - two girls at their stall
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Huaihua - centre - overpass - two girls at their stall
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Huaihua - centre - overpass - man at his "drink" stall. This overpass is
always crowded with stalls and usually bustles' with pedestrian traffic

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Huaihua - centre - walking street - deserted at lunch time.
For over three hours between 11:20am and 2:30pm - shops,
offices and some restaurants 'shut down', most people have a nap.
I'm often asked - "....if I have had a good sleep?"

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Huaihua - centre - walking street - "playboy and his bike" -
Often used as a "taxi" these motor bikes often
have there own 'sun shade'

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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - "orange truck" repair
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Thursday, August 11, 2005


Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road -
market - "vegetable section"

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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - meat men
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - meat men - "beef"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - meat man - "pork"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - market entrance
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - garlic woman - removing the garlic "silk"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - scales - Its interesting to note that most Chinese still use the "old" or traditional form of weight - that is "Jin 1 kilogram = 2 jin = 2.205 pounds. jin = 10 liang (formerly 16 liang = 1 jin = 500 g"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - two women with hats
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - washing drying in the late afternoon sun
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - waste plastic and paper sorting "factory"
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - man "sorting" waste plastic and paper for recycling
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Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - "2262652" -
a phone number painted on the wall of this building
on Yingfeng East Road - "removal service's"

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005


Huaihua - 535 Peoples Liberation Army Hospital -
Waiting - August 2nd 2005 - Our daughter
was born at 3:56pm -

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Tuesday, August 09, 2005


Huaihua - University - restaurant - two of the "workers" employed by the school to demolish the old "english" building - "pay-day" - rice and cold water
photo. mhobbs