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Guess what happens when 1.3 billion Chinese (ok maybe not so many) all have one week vacation at the same time. Actually you don’t wanna know. If you plan on taking any means of transportation, no matter train, bus or air, don’t even think about it. Well we were so smart to make travel plans anyway. So my wife waited at the train ticket counter for 3 (in words three, san 三) hours just to be told that there is absolutly no train ticket avalilable anymore. So in the end we had to book a pretty expensive flight. I just hope we get a train ticket back. Not that I like taking trains in China that much, especially not if they take 19h for a 700 km distance, but airtravel gets really expensive after a while. Actually the thing I miss most here is my car. Now I just realize how convinient car travel is. But on the other hand, you don’t really want to drive here in China, at least not if you don’t have a serious death wish. I have seen literally every violation of traffic rules that is possible. Starting from complete ignorance of red lights to 4 trucks driving parallel to each other on a 3 (!) lane highway. The most fun part was the busdriver who was then overtaking on the opposite lane. Ok I got carried away…

Anyway if you can, don’t travel when ever there is a longer holiday such as National Holiday or Chinese New Year. On the other hand that is about the only time when you get of work for a longer period of time. Yeah life can be a real bitch. On the other hand, did I mention that I have a ticket for the F1 race in Shanghai next weekend . That is really gonna rock and it is the last chance for me to see Michael race.

Ok that’s it for today. Actually I gonna upload some photos from our Suzhou trip last weekend soon. So stay tuned.

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