Today was another early start as I was due to go rafting just outside Xiamen, again with some of the other ex-pat teachers. There was quite a large group of us in the end, about twelve or so. We were about halfway there when the car in front of us stopped to do a u-turn in the middle of the road. We tried to overtake it by crossing over on to the other side of the road only to meet a truck coming the other way. Our driver tried to weave the minibus through the gap but ended up hitting the car in front, raking along its side and taking its front bumper off. Which all sounds far more dramatic than it actually was. No-one was hurt but we were forced to wait by the side
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