No More Bus!

One week ago I went for the first time to the bakery. I really was impressed what they sold. So many nice and delicious things. The bakers work whole day long and keep on baking whole the day to keep the supply fresh. And again it is not that expensive for what I’m used too.

Last Wednesday also was the moonfestival. This is a national holiday in China, but what it exactly means I don’t know. I tried to ask some local people, but they weren’t able to explain it clear with me, with their Chinese-english. I only know that the people come together (friends and family) give mooncake to each other and eat it. Then at night they have a dinner together and go home afterwards. Of course I also tried a mooncake. And surprised as I was, besides the bottles of Heineken it was partly something Dutch as well. The mooncake is filled with something that is different for everycake, but the outside of the cake tastes exactly the same as what the Dutch know as Taitai.

Then to come back to the title. Thursday I bought my own scooter. The bus is always full of people and most of the time late, so I thought just buy a scooter. Wow I understand the rules of the traffic it is safe to drive a vehicle here, so no worries!!
It is very simple. You have to stop in 9 of the 10 times for the red light, make sure you don’t hit any pedestrian or car and cars go first no matter what. If you follow these 3 rules, nothing can happen. It is an electric scooter, so every 2 days I have 2 charge my batteries again.. and it also isn’t particularly fast. But still it beats walking and the bus.

Friday we finalized with 10 people in total a trip to see more of China. Next week is a national holiday in China for 7 days and we thought this is an excellent opportunity to see more of the country. So we planned a trip with 10 people. Thursday night we will leave to Shanghai and stay there for 6 days. We won’t stay in Shanghai only, but also see some places in the neighborhood of that city. After those 6 days, we will leave and go to Quilin (I think you write it like that). Where we will complete the last 3 days of our holiday. We will arrive back in Beijing on Saturday night.
That also means I won’t be online and check my e-mails for that time!