Comments on: The Songhua River https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/ Postcards from the Edge Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:17:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34925 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:17:21 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34925 In reply to Charli.

It was SUPER-exciting, I must say…

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34924 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:17:00 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34924 In reply to Ainlay.

Oh Jesus, yes. -30, in fact, makes you organised. Although it’s a lot warmer than that now. Going out is rather like it used to be when Zac was a newborn. A whole rigmarole of hats, gloves, final checks… So different from hot climates.

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34919 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:14:52 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34919 In reply to Nonplussed.

Thank you! You will love the ice sculpture pictures when I get them up. That’s also a truly, truly magical moment. Sunrise over Gokyo Ri type magical.

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34917 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:14:20 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34917 In reply to Horatio Marteleira.

It’s not a choice I’d have made three years ago, coming from the UK, believe you me! And the primary reason for Harbin or this region was for Zac to get well-accented Chinese — but, now, I’m finding it really, really fascinating.

What’s amazing is that the human body adapts. When we were in Egypt in the summer, 35 felt cool; in Asia, 20 felt positively chilly; in Harbin in the winter -10 can feel warm.

]]> By: Theodora https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34916 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:12:47 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34916 In reply to Kelly.

All you bloody Canadians are making me want to go to Canada now 🙁

Hear you also have amazing skiing…

]]> By: Charli https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34882 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:21:31 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34882 There’s something very alluring about a frozen wonderland. However one with tanks, ice slides and frozen staircases, well, that’s just the icing on the cake!

]]> By: Ainlay https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34857 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:00:56 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34857 Not even the lure of driving tanks on frozen rivers could make me endure -22F weather. I hate the cold! I bet that 6th floor walk up makes you very organized before you leave in the morning since you don’t want to just race back up for that wallet you forgot!

]]> By: Nonplussed https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34829 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:16:29 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34829 Life is not terribly magical at the moment so thank you for bringing a few moments of vicarious wonder and excitement into one’s humdrum life. This was lovely.

]]> By: Horatio Marteleira https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34788 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:04:21 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34788 Honestly, I really enjoy your love affair with ice, even after having escaped from Canada where I nearly died on a glacier, nearly froze waiting for a streetcar slightly drunk, and got stranded on snowbanks driving when I still lived on a farm. I thawed reading anything exotic and tropical, always planning my escape.
Now I enjoy your writing the same way I once enjoyed Dostoevsky’s soulful characters as opposed to placid bodies wasting away on hot beaches.
Now I understand your choice.

]]> By: Kelly https://www.escapeartistes.com/2013/03/14/the-songhua-river/#comment-34753 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:05:13 +0000 http://www.escapeartistes.com/?p=17307#comment-34753 I second those Rideau Canal memories, it was always a trip with your class at School and so much fun, especially chomping on beaver tails (like naan bread dusted in cinnamon & sugar). Not just students but many politicians & civil servants skate to work as the government offices line the Canal. Hockey played on a frozen river/pond is a common Canadian activity for young and old alike.

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