Comments on: How to Ride a Bus in China https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/ Postcards from the Edge Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:41:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14974 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:54:43 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14974 In reply to Amanda.

Hello! I haven’t noticed any queuing awareness EXCEPT in Xing-ba-ke and Jao-le-fou, where it is quite incredibly orderly. And, tracking back to the 11th, I noticed nothing but the usual kidney-compressing scrum. So I think that might have been just for the Olympics.

On the Olympic theme, I will be excited to see if Beijing’s public lavatories are less vile than the public lavatories here. We were talking about this in Chinese class today. In the country, our teacher prefers to go in a field rather than use the communal trench. In the city, she, like us, just holds it in…

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14973 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:46:55 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14973 In reply to Snap.

I have yet to take a bung bung. They don’t have many of them here. Although the police ride around in not quite bung-bungs, but things that look EXACTLY like Noddy cars. With almost exactly the same facial expressions you see on builders riding those miniature diggers around town when they know their mates are driving a bloody great earthmover.

]]> By: Amanda https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14972 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:25:54 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14972 I take it this means ‘nation queuing awareness day’ on the 11th of every month has been abandoned? On the 11th as it looks like 2 people standing in a line! 🙂
I’m loving reading about the China leg of your trip & getting huge déjà vu, it takes me back! Have fun! xxx

]]> By: Snap https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14971 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:35:58 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14971 …or take a bung bung. The tuk tuks of China. I had to laugh when we first heard the name. But once crammed into that little sardine can carraige, we discovered that’s exactly the noise they make…bung,bung,bung,bung,bung,bung,bung,bung,bung,bung,bung, 😉

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14970 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:19:01 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14970 In reply to Lauren.

Watch out for pickpockets when you do… But do try it. When they’re not too busy, it’s quite a nice way to interact with local people you wouldn’t otherwise meet.

]]> By: Lauren https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14969 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:42:42 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14969 I haven’t been brave enough to attempt a chinese bus yet…

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14968 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:23:38 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14968 In reply to lara dunston.

Thanks, Lara. I’ll have more useful China advice coming up soon…

]]> By: lara dunston https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14967 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:42:24 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14967 Love this post! Great stuff. This is the kind of insightful local advice I love to read on blogs. I’ll be saving this for our next trip to China. And giving it a stumble now so many other travellers get to benefit from this! 🙂

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14966 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:49:23 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14966 In reply to Justin.

Yes, I thought Londoners were aggressive. Then I went to Vietnam and thought — wow! they’re kind of like us. Then I got to China, and it was “holy cripes” we have NOTHING on those folk. Only scary moment? Our first bus let me on and NOT Zac. But I battered on the door and wailed incoherently and it stopped to let him on. Oh the joys of language!

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2011/10/04/how-to-ride-a-bus-in-china/#comment-14965 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:45:00 +0000 http://travelswithanineyearold.com/?p=5439#comment-14965 In reply to Rosa.

Thank you, Rosa, thank you! Hope to see you again soon…

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