Sunday, October 5, 2008

The long road to Ye Xing




Last week we had travel to Ye Xing to look at teapot.  The trip was not without it's little kinks.  Leaving Jingdezhen we encountered problems.  Two hours in our bus had broken down, blew the head gasket.  Mechanics fixed the problem, on the road, literally.

 After a six hour delay, we were back on the road (Lei Chow won the bet, never bet against a Chinamen).  Two hours later our buss broke down again.  This time it was night.  We called the police and they saved us, they called cabs and booked us at a local hotel, and made sure we got there and no one ripped us off. They got us a good deal on the hotel and even tucked us in, not really.  The Chinese Police are fucking awesome!  The next morning we were interviewed by CCTV. "American Trapped in China, Find it OK."



We got another bus and made it to Ye Xing, bought teapots for three days, no joke, and got back on the rode.  Our bus broke down again on the way back, this is how we felt.

But the bus was fixed again. After an argument, The bus driver thought the machanics had ripped him off, he used the same ones!  But they fixed it again and we made it home. 

The end

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