When you have very
little money,
No passport,
And nothing to take pictures with....
It's Very Hard.
What wasn't
stolen, we left with the concierge at the Guangdong
International Hotel -- after visiting the British
Consulate there.
Hands free
makes walking the crowded streets a lot easier. And what do you know, straight outside was
a McDonalds. Not the worst place to start.
A short
walk away is the multi-storey, Guangzhou Friendship Store.
How things
have changed.... On my last visit to China, there
wasn't such a wealth of choice available; and no more the need to buy in dollars, or FEC
(those abandoned Foreign Exchange Certificates).
That also means no feasible
black-market for the foreigner.
Everything
is available, and the prices are comparable to, or even cheaper than, Hong Kong.
Many
Cantonese now walk around talking into mobile phones, and the all-you-can-eat buffet, at
the nearby Baiyun Hotel (88 Yuan) is not beyond their reach.
We had much
less money than them, and passed away the time with a coffee and a can of Coke; while
waiting for our train to Beijing and writing up the
report for you.
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