I almost forgot when I posted here the last time

I’ve been very lazy in writing English posts. Partly because what I write in English here attracts a very small new audience who just reach this blog side of mine by accident and don’t stay for long. And my friends I met with blogging at Opera’s community didn’t seem to bother to be shunted over here after I was forced to move my English blog hosted with the community to my own name place (ChangGuohua.com). The community was and remains blocked by the Great Firewall of China. Other friends of mine reading my Chinese blog posts didn’t seem to give a damn about what I write in English, either. Too bad.

I’d had a very cool and comfortable summer with my wife in Guiyang, Guizhou province back in late July and almost the whole of August. She studies medicine there, as I said in my previous posts.

I went to Guiyang and joined her for summer vacation. She and I went on lots of day-trips around the city and to several very scenic and refreshing spots in the province. They included newly built apartments nestled in valleys or perched on hillsides, or beside city parks; Tianhetan Park and Qianling Park, two city forest parks within easy reach from downtown Guiyang; an ancient village Qingyan (Black Rocks); and Huangguoshu Waterfalls (reportedly the biggest in Asia), Qixingqiao (Seven-Star Bridge, a naturally grown stone bridge over a dry ravine), and Doupotang (a tail leader scene of TV drama The Journey to the West, a pilgrimage story featuring Monkey King, was shot here), all outside of Guiyang City.

Enjoy the photos I took there!