China Week: Unusual Translations
If doing signs in Taiwanese characters was my job, I would be very, very big at it. Even so, I might lease someone who cognises the language good before seting up a lasting sign at a major tourist destination. For a foresightful time, this didn’t happen in China and we snarled the photos at a lower place before they invested in altering the signs for the Olympics.
The guy in this photo is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever so coped with. He’s the unsighted adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber.(acknowledge the broken in cane, his favourite schtick) Photo is from the Three Gorges Dam. He did not plow over.
I ne’er could enter out why they desired to protect the railings. This was at the Summer Palace, where I sensed obliged to compose a rant about tourism and tour groups.
An solemn request at Yellowed Mountain. Most tourist travel in China (outside the cities) is verifyed. Most people are herded onto busses and kept in a group, led by a flag-gestating guide who talks English and may practice a megaphone. We are very main travelers and rose quite tired of these guides.
At the Three Gorges Dam.
I didn’t hire it as a compliment.
I intend they thought “crab”
4 Stars!
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