Diary
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Mar 2014
Sat 29/3/14: Mao’s Portrait
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Tiananmen square. Mao’s portrait looks down at me and others (in fact many others!). 20 feet x 15 feet, one and half tons his painted portrait looks oddly Warhol- like viewed from the side…
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Mar 2014
Fri 28/3/14: in a beijing jam
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flight Guangzhou to Beijing – into the smog…taxi ride in hectic swerving traffic….jams on jams….then toast! – got there!
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Mar 2014
Thurs 27/3/14: HK to GUANGZHOU
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…the train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou was packed full. Negotiations at the train station about the taxi price went up, down, up again, back down, around in circles and seemed to end higher than the original starting price , then back low again- not so much a language problem, just dam crazy.