National Day holiday, seven days off work, something I have been looking forward to a lot. To make life easier, I decided to stay in Shenzhen, but go to Dapeng, which is pretty far east. This city just sprawls and sprawls. It would take me about two and a half hours to get there, plus I thought it would take longer due to the terrible holiday traffic. First it was the subway, which I thought would be the easiest part, but turned out to be the most annoying. Due to Covid (I know the rest of the world has got over it, but not China), Guangdong province (or maybe just Shenzhen) has a policy where you have to scan in places, but of course the system only works if you have a mainland ID number, normally
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