Last week we had a couple of days off for the New Years Eve holiday. We didn't have any big plans, you can't venture too far when you're expected back at work two days later. Mostly we wanted to relax, but we also wanted to do a couple touristy things in Suzhou (we have to do them soon before we move to Shanghai). Our goal was to check out this ancient bridge called Precious Belt Bridge (宝带桥). We figured this would be a relatively short venture, but we didn't account for, what I will call, the Chinese Map Suck feature. I won't get into details (because its too painful for me), but we spent the whole afternoon wandering ALL over Suzhou by bus only to arrive at the bridge (in the middle of this weird industrial shipping area) and find it locked and closed for the day at 4:55pm. Erg. This test run gave us the opportunity to figure things out a little bit better and we homed in on the bridge on day 2 pretty quickly. Here are some pictures from the venture:
One of the most busted buses I have ever ridden. It actually stalled out every time the driver stopped at a light.
Me fishing gunk out of the dirty river
Emma at the bridge.
Me dancing a jig after having successfully found the bridge!That's it from Suzhou. Only another 10 days left here!
- Jon
One of the most busted buses I have ever ridden. It actually stalled out every time the driver stopped at a light.
Me fishing gunk out of the dirty river
Emma at the bridge.
Me dancing a jig after having successfully found the bridge!
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