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I find myself writing my first ‘during’ blog entry for China from the 09.44 train on the last leg of my homeward journey. It’s a quiet morning at Bristol Temple Meads, the air is refreshingly crisp. The sprinter train from Bristol to Gloucester has 2 carriages and only about 10% of the seats are occupied. It’s a marked contrast to yesterday’s train from Guangzhou to Kowloon where every seat of the double decker train was taken.
I begin to wonder how many single journeys have been made during our trip (by any and all members of the group). So working from the finish (train – UK1) to the start (train – UK1), in much the same way as my back to front blog entries, I begin to tot it up…
Plane – 3 (China 2, UK1)
Train – 12 (China 10, UK 2)
Car – 41 (China 24, UK 17)
Bus – 11 (China 9, UK 2)
Boat – 2 (up and down Pearl River)
And how about the taxi’s, Nic?? I think we made a substantial contribution to the taxi economy of Guangzhou (and now Beijing…)
A x
The taxi’s are counted under cars – 24 in China. How do prices compare in Beijing? I had to get a taxi from Glos to Chelt train station when my train was cancelled the day we flew to China. The 20 minute journey cost £13 compared to £2.50 in Guangzhou!