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I was sorting through my China pictures to make a slide show and thought these were worth and extra look to share with you all.
Below is a photo I took on the day I rode the electric motorcycle to Shuangliu and was on the divided highway - 4 lanes each way - as I best recall- it may have been 5, but not less than 4 lanes. The roads are big. Anyway a bus - seen here was making a U turn in the right lane- sorta backed up traffic for a bit and made for interesting movement around it while it went through its motions. A couple of things to note -- check out the lane discipline of the yellow crane truck and the green bus next to me - that bus was a standing room only one too. Also note the woman disembarking passenger from the U -turn bus. I do enjoy weaving through traffic when it is stopped like this. There are some type B persons who will wait - but us type A s -- well Chinese driving offers opportunities to truly move forward. yes that is a concrete mixer up ahead on the right. Traffic is intense.
The sign below was in the park I went to in Shuangliu. Check out directive number 4. Actually all of them are pretty good and are good advice when in public generally. To save you a trip to the dictionary a "pericarp" is basically a fruit skin like and orange pealing. Sometimes the person doing a translation just has a dictionary - and on occasion is entertaining. there are web sites devoted to Chinglish as it is called
Check out this NY Times (I just googled Chinglish) Ihttp://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/03/world/asia/20100503_CHINGLISH-10.html
you can double click the photo and make it larger to read the "rules"
and below is an advertisement for a restaurant. The specialties are of course chicken, duck, fish and rabbit.
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