Bryan Murphy's Blog - Posts Tagged "impressions"

Suzhou city buses are plentiful, and plenty full. The passengers seem happy enough.
The buses have “next stop” announcements, first in Mandarin, then in Suzhounese.
Q loses 100 euros to a pickpocket, probably at a bus stop.

I’ve been posting impressions of China when I returned after 20 years. The country has changed enormously, mostly for the better. Last week, the place where I lived back in 1991 made headlines, and for the worst of reasons. It is not a city, it is a small town, a speck on the map, and without some grisly occurrence like this, nobody was ever likely to hear of it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-...