See the "Middle Kingdom" through the eyes of a British/Australian (from Melbourne, Australia) living and working in China
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Huaihua - centre - overpass - two girls at their stall photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - centre - overpass - two girls at their stall photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - centre - overpass - man at his "drink" stall. This overpass is always crowded with stalls and usually bustles' with pedestrian traffic photo. mhobbs
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?" photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - centre - walking street - "playboy and his bike" - Often used as a "taxi" these motor bikes often have there own 'sun shade' photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - "orange truck" repair photo. mhobbs
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - "vegetable section" photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street -Yingfeng East Road - market - meat men photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - meat men - "beef" photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market- meat man - "pork" photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market- market entrance photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - market - garlic woman- removing the garlic "silk" photo. mhobbs
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" photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road- two women with hats photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - washing drying in the late afternoon sun photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road- waste plastic and paper sorting "factory" photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road- man "sorting" waste plastic and paper for recycling photo. mhobbs
Huaihua - main street - Yingfeng East Road - "2262652" - a phone number painted on the wall of this building on Yingfeng East Road - "removal service's" photo. mhobbs
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Huaihua - 535 Peoples Liberation Army Hospital - Waiting - August 2nd 2005 - Our daughter was born at 3:56pm - photo. mhobbs
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