Hunan – Canadian Dragonfly

Visiting Rural China — Central Hunan Countryside

2010/02/06 Prof Ron agriculture, China, countryside, farming, Hunan, photography, road building, road construction, rural, shopkeeper, traditional life, Travel, village life

My Changsha friends took me with their car to the rural areas of Hunan Province where I visited an English

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On a Hard Seat Coach from Wuhan to Changsha

2009/11/15 Prof Ron Changsha, China, countryside, DongTing, friendship, Hubei, Hunan, photography, railway, students, Sudoku, tourism, train, Travel, Wuhan, YueYang

I was on the train to Changsha (Hunan) from Wuhan (Hubei) and chose to travel “hard seat” this time. Across from me was a university student. He watched me do Sudoku—the addictive number game…. Here we were, very close to the big lake (Hu) from which the Province of Hunan (south of the lake) and Hubei (north of the lake) get their names.