Scraping the surface

This weekend gone we decided to venture into Zhongshan and nose around the parks. What we found has changed my opinion of our home. Zhongshan really does have real life beyond the commerce and shopping. I was starting to think that all this place had to offer was endless shopping 'malls'!
Zhongshan is situated in the delta of the Pearl River, so there have been foreign influences here for some time. At the mouth of the delta , on each side -facing each other-are Hong Kong and Macau, further up stream are what used to be called Canton( now Guangzhou) and then Nanning- the site of Japanese incursions in the second World War. In the side streets, we found evidence of this history-crumbling colonial era buildings.
So, with a colleague from work we took a paddle boat around some lakes in one of the parks. We drifted through the overhanging trees and watched colourful little birds taking a dip. We then climbed up through a hilly park to find a pagoda.
This was topped of with a huge bowl of delicious noodles from a Xinjiang place. A perfect day!

As you may know by now, this sight has experienced some difficulties and has lost the text from a lot of blogs. We would be more than grateful for anyones help in retrieving this. Much thanks!....

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Nu sveiki! Nu jau bus pagajushas kadas 3 nedeljas kopsh esam sheit apmetushies. Bet nu lidz shim nav isti sanacis pa perimetru parak izgrozities. Ja nu vienigi uz paris veikaliem un tirdzniecibas centriem. Shodien - 09/08/2007 -ir pirma diena, kad laiks nav sutinoshi karsts, joprojam, protams, ir silts, bet vismaz nav necieshama svelme!!!
Pie mums dzivokli ir apmetushies vel 2 individi, viens ir pensijas vecuma, pusplikugalvu Amerikanis, kas parvietojas ar motociklu, var runat par visu un jebko bez apstajas un ir parliecinats kristietis. Un sievieshu dzimtas parstave varda Beibi, kas ir izlutinata, nedaudz parbarota, bet diezgan piemiliga un ljoti pukaina kucite. Ta nu mes chetrata dzivojamies:))
Lietus pedejas nedeljas laika ir neiztrukstosha dienas sastavdalja. Un te list ne pa jokam - gazh ta pamatigi un ilgstoshi, ka ari parasti komplekta ir iekljauta zibenjoshana un perkona dardinashana. Vakar, piemeram, musu klases tika atceltas laika apstaklju delj - negaiss bij tik tiesham pabaisigs, ka ari pa radio solija, ka taifuns tuvojas. Cik saprotu, tad tagad tada ka taifunu sezona ir sakusies :))) Moshka paveiksies un ari shodien vares bezgjelnjikot!:))))
Rit Stivenam jubilejs, bet man ne davana ne ka - nav jau laika shajos dzives ritmos izbriveties tadai trivialai padarishanai ka davanas mekleshanai - darbs, darbs un velreiz darbs!!!! Eh, moshka uzzimeshu kartinju.....
Rit ari pirma algas diena!!! Tad nu redzes cik atliksies pec tam, kad viss tiks atvilkts (komunalie maksajumi, pusdienas utt.) :))
Palenam, pamazam macamies Kjinieshu valodu, ljoti ceru, ka sanaks apgut sho valodu vairak vai mazak .....Ta, luk. Kas vel tads..???
Ja, shi saita ipashnieks kaut kada veziti negribot un neplanojot izdzesa visu cilveku pedejo 3 meneshu celjojuma aprakstus, ieskaitot, protams, musejos. Pastav ljoti minimala iespeja, ka bus iespejams tos atrestauret, bet parak lielas ceribas es neloloju:))
Mes planojam iegadaties lietotus ritenjus (tie te ir diezgan leti,cik zinu , par piechuku, mes varetu dabut normalus braucamrikus) un tad brivajos brizhos braukalet apkart un iepazit sho teritoriju. Tas butu daudz mobilak, ka ari veseligak, jo uz doto bridi vieniga fiziska aktivitate ir mana tikshana pa kapnem uz 4-to stavu, kur mes dzivojam, lai iebauditu pusdienas!
St.citu, musu kolegje no Kanadas ir ljoti fantastisks cilveks, vinjai ir 60 gadi, bet izskatas uz 40!!!! Tochna!! Un mums baigi labi sapas un ar vinju ir interesanti un feini!
Kas labs "DIA+LOGA"? es jau biju sakusi raizeties,ka sen nekas nav dzirdets!!! Nezinu ka nu viss te izgrozisies, bet visticamak, ka shogad lidz majam netiksim:)
Jauku dienu!!!!

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