Golden week holiday

For the uneducated IE me and all non residents China has an autumn break called Golden week and nearly all the country has a holiday for 7 days.
Nett result big queues for train tickets and the streets are very busy did try to take a photo of walking street in Wuhu to try and capture how busy it was but not sure i quite captured the overall crowded chaos of lots and lots of people in one place all trying to shop for the bargains in the stores who offer discounts up to 80%.

My week was fairly uneventful wandered down to new park on the side of the Yangtze river which is nearly complete now and looks great and is very nice and if I ever manage to get the photos linked to this blog then you can see what I mean. There is an old tower and in the back ground a new building in the shape of a sail (shades of dubai just not so large).

Also earlier in the week went to Zhe Shan Park which has small amusement park a zoo and is next to the Guangji buddhist temple, spent a pleasant afternoon walking around the park and did go up on the Ferris Wheel for the bargain price of 10 rmb again did take some photos and next time plan to properly explore the buuddhist temple.

Towards the end of the week went to Nanjing by bus on Friday with my boss and his wife without who's help I don't think I would have managed the trip by myself they really took good care of me.
Had a good day in Nanjing did some shopping managed to buy 3 new shirts in my size ( don't think many shops stock larger sizes) which isn't surprising because how many 6ft English people are going to wander in through the doors of your shop in Wuhu or anywhere else for that matter.
We came back by train which was also an experience don't think I've ever seen such a large facade as the train station in Nanjing very impressive very busy but easy to navigate.

So apart from some typical English weather on Saturday ie it rained very hard and lasted most of the afternoon and evening that was my week off which seemed to fly by (doesn't it always) Also through the week had a meal and met one American teacher and his wife and two Chinese teachers for lunch so extended the people i know beyond work.

Next week back to work and during the week I have my first lesson in learning Chinese wish me luck.