How to draw a crowd in China...

... stop.

As anyone who has spent any time in China will tell you, it's not difficult to draw a crowd.

We've been out and about quite a bit recently and the first trip we took was round Wugong Mountain with Rick's friend, Joseph.  We were taking advantage of the fact that the students were involved in a sports meeting and so there were no classes, or so we thought...

The first day of the sports meeting dawned wet.  Very wet.  So classes were back on.  Except that half the students had gone home.  Thursday was fine, so the sports meeting was back on!!  We somehow got dragged into the opening ceremony and then we dashed of on the bikes.  Thursday stayed fine and we had a good day's riding and taking photos.  We stayed way up the mountain in what is loosely termed a 'hotel' but is very basic.  Still, we had some good food and some evil baijiu (more of that later...)

Next day was wet again, so the sports meeting was off and classes were back on.  Sadly, we were up a mountain and a few hours' ride away from PX, so there was not really much to be done.  We drove back in the cold and wet.  Not pleasant.

Here are some photos from that trip anyway and I'll write more about the rest of the gallivanting soon...