Tattoos

Saturday comes and we head out for a day with John, myself, Jo and Robert.  We had decided to head on the big red bus, a sightseeing bus that takes you on a loop around the city and drops you at various places, for $5 the ticket lasts for 24 hours and you can get on and off as often as you like.

My boy was over t-shirts, collared shirts and polos, so in true John style out came the singlet or as I refer to it tank top time.

We headed downstairs and there is John in his tank top with his many tattoos out.  People stared all day, kids would look around and I guess when I think about it you don’t see many Chinese men firstly in tank tops and secondly covered in tattoos.  Also many of John’s Tattoo’s are Chinese so I think that drew the looks as well.

At one stage when we got off at City God Temple and Yu Yuan Garden, when we were heading through the garden two separate people stopped John and asked for photos with him.  I caught another lady taking his photo without his knowledge. 

The garden Yu Yuan Garden was $40 RMB around $8 and it was magnificent if you ever come to Shanghai it has so far been the highlight.  It is peaceful, beautiful and magnificently put together.  There are rocky gardens; pavilions with wonderful names like the pavilion of the thousand flowers and the pavilion of the intended quiet, there are waterfalls and bridges, Kio Karp as far as the eye can see.  These Karp are around 50 to 60 cm in length and the colours are magnificent, they come in the traditional orange, yellow, black and wonderful shades of red and black and white.  There were turtles and ducks.  It truly was a beautiful place.

John and I left Jo and Robert who headed off into the modern part of Shanghai and we hit an outside bar and sat and pondered just how lucky we are.  All in all another fantastic day in China.