26 October 2018 Nanping and Back to Kunshan

IMG 0910 Ready for our last breakfast at Pig's Inn IMG 0911 pattern IMG 0912 and the sisters arrive IMG 7159 then the hot basket of breakfast dumplings
IMG 7160 Close up IMG 7161 Food as art IMG 0913 A last walk up the valley shows goats on the loose IMG 7163 Cats snoozing with the turnips drying
IMG 0914 and us on the path IMG 0916 spiky caterpillars IMG 7164 a village up valley IMG 7165 Slopes covered with bamboo and pine destined to become poles different purposes
IMG 0917 A sow in her enclosure IMG 0919 Rural still life IMG 4151 Some serious bamboo IMG 0920 Large basal diameter
IMG 0921 Hot stuff in the garden IMG 0922 IMG 0923 and some kind of flowering plant IMG 0924 with fruits
IMG 7168 the water is very clear IMG 0927 Check out time IMG 0928 lovely place IMG 0929 Time for a quick lunch in our dining room before the driver picks us up
IMG 0941 We write/sign three postcards based on , naif agricultural machinery paintings by the son of the Pig's Inn proprietor, More (that's his name) IMG 0930 Lovely spaces IMG 7170 One last espresso with a quick tooth and gum massage IMG 0932 from a moving car, drying bamboo and sheet metal vehicle
IMG 0935 Drying for weaving into matts of some kind we were told IMG 0943 Starting off for a quick cruise of the quiet streets of UNESCO World Heritage village, Nanping IMG 0944 Selfie IMG 0945 familiar interiors
IMG 0949 interior courtyards IMG 0946 windows become art IMG 0947 Very clean IMG 7173 Intricate lattice work
IMG 0948 Communal building will open after lunch break IMG 7178 intricate wood carving on pieces of wood bigger than anything that you can find today in the forests IMG 7177 IMG 0950
IMG 0952 a mix of old and contemporary show a well lived-in space IMG 0953 Smooching IMG 7179 lived in IMG 0954 Going outside to the forest park
IMG 0955 Where is everyone? IMG 0956 lattice work IMG 7180 cat on duty IMG 0957 aka consumable stuff to buy
IMG 0958 Bri sets out to test the three locally-produced rice wines IMG 0959 Commerce arranged as art IMG 0960 Difficult decision IMG 7185 Maybe this one
IMG 0961 roof lines IMG 7186 we take photos of maps so that we can consult them as we walk IMG 0962 light and dark IMG 0963
IMG 0963 copy pattern IMG 0964 IMG 0965 IMG 4152 buying more tea
IMG 4153 off she went to get something IMG 0967 rice wine for sale IMG 7187 mung beans drying IMG 0966 Ye Clan's house
IMG 0968 important notes that I can't read IMG 7188 wood work IMG 0969 Giants lived here IMG 0970 time to head back to the car
IMG 0971 another ancestral hall IMG 0972 lane art IMG 0973 IMG 0974 roof art
IMG 7189 door art IMG 7192 view from a bullet train to Hefei IMG 0976 Sisters on the train IMG 0977 and the huge station at Hefei, with admittedly, some design flaws