A few weeks of holiday...

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A few weeks off before term starts

We spend the next few weeks of freedom before term starts exploring and sightseeing in Lanzhou, climbed 'White Pagoda hill' and drank Chinese tea looking out over Lanzhou, climbed a huge hill in 'Wu Quan park' and nearly suffocated getting up the stairs - apparently the high altitude affects my anaemia issues though hopefully I'll acclimatise soon, great views from the top though! and then took the chairlift back down (the wrong way round to do it but we couldn't find where it started to get it up the hill 😞 We went to the Gansu Province Museum which Andrew loved and I thought was moderately interesting, helped by the English language labelling. Mostly we improved a little of our Chinese and got better at ordering food in restaurants and settling into the flat. We did (with help from some of the other foreign teachers in our stairwell) find a foreign import store so Andrew is especially happy - we can get bacon, sausages, cheese among many other random things!

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Photos

Wu Quan Park - 5 Springs Park
The entrnceway - we couldn't find the chairlift so we just went in the main gate

A lion and Andrew
He looks like this because I had to make him stand still for the photo!

Looking over Lanzhou
One of many photos which didn't quite capture the view enough... we were very high up!

A bell & Andrew
and yes he did get to make it ring....