Visiting Cindy in Mainland China
June/July 1987
Near Suzhou, our next stop, there was a river with much barge
traffic on it. Most of these "barges" were actually homes - with a
roof, kitchen and all - for the Chinese families who lived in and ran them.
There I also saw a large tricycle with a load of six live geese.
The next day we saw the Tiger Hill Leaning Pagoda,
and the silk embroidery factory - where the Chinese ladies make beautiful intricate patterns of silk that are all hand woven.
Suzhou is in many ways similar to Venice, Italy in that many of the "streets" consist of canals for barges and boats.
Here I saw more hard manual labor in China.
We saw one garden there with an arched bridge, water lilies, willow trees, plants and rocks.
Yangzhou was our next stop with its beautiful "Slim"
West Lake, bridges, willow trees and gardens.
Next we drove over a wide impressive bridge across the Yangtze River to Nanjing.
