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A Change Of Plans
My boyfriend and I have to cancel our trip to Hainan because of a typhoon.
26/12/2013
Ruth Silbermayr
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Today, I’m sharing a photo with you that was taken around the same time last year. On this day about a year ago, my husband and I visited Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen (大芬油画村). The village features many small shops that sell copies of famous paintings.
I can imagine that my grandfather would have enjoyed visiting this village to see how skilled the artists are at copying famous paintings—he was a copyist himself.
We found an old mansion with an entrance fee of 20 Yuan per person. It was definitely worth going inside. There were no people around, and it featured a few beautiful halls and gardens.
Around the same time last year, we had a few days off from my company in Shenzhen for Chinese New Year.
Originally, my husband (then boyfriend) and I had planned to take a bus to Hainan and spend a few days there at the beach. But when we arrived at the bus station, it was empty. We were informed that a typhoon on Hainan Island had caused all buses from Guangdong province to be canceled. Due to the typhoon, the weather on Hainan was also really cold.
So, we made a spontaneous decision to go to Guangxi province instead. We bought sleeper train tickets and left for Guangxi.
Have you ever been to China’s South?