Letter from China 4: These I have loved...

This isn't going to be a proper diary entry, not as such - just a list of the little things I loved when I lived in Guizhou, or have come to love on revisiting the place. I'm leaving tomorrow night - a day and a half in Kunming (pleasant mountain city to the west - lost a lot of its picturesque old buildings in the great drive for modernisation but still contrives to be charming), then on to the far west, so far in fact that it's not really Han Chinese territory at all, and I don't know that much about it.

So this is just a few little bits and pieces I've had fun with over the past couple of weeks. Some are just lovely, full stop; others are just the whimsies of a spoiled foreigner who doesn't have to live here all the time and enjoys the novelty.

( Things I like )

That's it for now - if I don't stop writing about things I like now I won't be able to appreciate any more nice things tomorrow, and that wouldn't do at all.