A leisurely start today, thankfully! Suzhou is a water city and we saw it both from the Grand Canal and the Ping Jiang Historic Walkway.
One of 8 City gates
Boats Waiting for Hire
We Had Our Own Private Boat!!
Buddhist Temple
Plenty of Bridges
In China they have “Pre-Wedding Photos” to put on the invites and outside the temple on the wedding day. Traditionally they wear red for this event. The Canal pathway is a popular spot for these photos.
Opposite direction Boat – not much room!
After we successfully passed the boat above we managed to side swipe a police launch, luckily the driver got no more than an evil glare from the police driver!
It’s Not Only the Roads Where There are Interesting Manoeuvres (3-ish point turn!)
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Garbage Collection on the Canal (This country is so Clean)
Interesting Place to Eat?
Gondola (Chinese Style)
After the canal trip we took a walk along the Pingjiang Road
Lyn Likes Red Lanterns
Dim-Sum (The real way!) Very colourful
General Views
Asleep on the Job??
Next Stop Lunch
After Lunch it was off to the Humble Administrators Garden
Sedan Chair
Pattern on Glass Matches Pattern on Ground!
Lotus Flower
Zig-Zag Bridge built because Bad Spirits an Only Walk Straight Ahead!
Small Plants Growing out of Roof
Punt
General View (couldn’t bring myself to say Bridge!)
The above two pictures are of the same Silk Embroidery Painting taken from front and reverse sides.. amazing work
Chrysanthemums
Bamboo Wlkway
500 Year Old Functioning Well
General Vies
I’ll leave you to research how to make silk as I need a break from this!!!!! , be warned this has not been proof read for the same reason!!!!!!!!
After dinner we took a walk along to a bridge over the canal, on the way there we saw strange lights in the sky. it turned out to be a 3 ft triangular kite with a 20ft tail, all decked out in flashing LED lights. In a small square by the bridge there were about 50 couples ball room dancing to music from a speaker system. All very civilised!
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