Dear FFF:
This is the most amazing city!! Ancient and modern all mixed together and alive from 6:00 am to 11:00 pm everywhere you go.
I have had a really busy week with my friend Pam (the gal I met in the airport) We have been to the antique market....street after street of old men selling wares of every imaginable thing......I bought an old opium pipe. The fabric market where you can have anything you want made to order. Want a cashmere coat? pick out a picture and your fabric (or bring an old coat and they will copy) and they will have make in three days........$60 - $70. Suits, dresses, blouses, absolutely anything.
Pearl market anyone? Silk market? I've seen em all and having a ball. We also went to Fuxing Park. What a morning........people singing, dancing, playing music, doing TaiChi, and just being happy. So fun to watch a bunch of Chinese doing the Texas Two Step! Older men and women walking backwards through the park (Cleans the mind) and men of all ages sitting and playing MahJong and drinking their tea!
Next Monday, I fly to Beijing and stay til Thursday. I have the name of my hotel written in Chinese so I can get a taxi to get me there from the airport. Everywhere you go, you have to have things written in Chinese characters because I haven't met a tai driver yet that speaks English. I am staying at a major hotel in Beijing so should be able to get on some English speaking tours.......want to go to The Great Wall and hopefully The Forbidden City. I could stay here a year and not see all there is to see!
Look forward to talking to everyone in November.
Love, GG
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