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Road rage

January 31st 2008
Yesterday we went to the beautiful town/city of Suzhou (sue Joe) which, though it is only 75Km from Shanghai, was unfortunately separated from it by the mother of all traffic jams. Tranglam trachta sron le toin (no fadas out here) (That's Irish, by the way) doesn't even begin to describe it! I kid you not we were in the car for 10 hours yesterday...5 there and 5 back, for a journey that typically ... read more
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