Sue and Ken Slater are from Melbourne, Australia. The MGs Beijing to London along the Silk Road, 2010 presented a great opportunity to travel in a convoy of six MG classic cars with like minded adventurers. Ken is a retired secondary school principal who spends his time with his sons, building and renovating houses and classic cars. His other passion is the Collingwood football team. Sue works as an educational consultant and enjoys life, family and friends.
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#18 Jeremy, Peter and Benjamin Bunny came here looking to find some little kiddies to play with well all they have found so far are some singular little emperors and empresses
Where are the kids?
- Is this wall to keep the rabbits out???
- Resting on the Great Wall
- To start with they were carried up the Great Wall
You know how Peter Rabbit, Mr Jeremy Fisher and cheeky Benjamin Bunny left the area around the pond in Mr Macgregor’s garden to start to explore the big wide world in the hope of finding some new and very special little friends ; well guess what they have hardly seen any little ones.
First, the three friends went to the Great Wall of China.Peter and Simon had to carrry them up to the Wall as their tiny physiques weren’t really made for climbing mountains. Tne MG team laughed and joked all the way. Ken made jokes about the wall being built to keep the rabbits out. Scary ….. so the three of them hid in Ken’s backpack. They just hate heights you know. They were very surprised that it was so rugged, steep and such a long way up. When they peeped out, and looked down from the wall they realised there would be no tasty morsels in that area. Certainly no kiddies or any fury friends to muck about with. The terrain was pretty mountainous and wind swept and it was obvious that the Wall would keep more than the Mongols out.
Then they headed into to Beijing and hung about the big square. They saw lots of folk in uniform and Chairman Mao’s portrait at the entrance to the Forbidden City. But you know there were very few kids about. The one or two little ones they spied were always surrounded by old folk and had little chance to escape and engage in play. And they were mainly dressed in design look -a -like labels. Right down to the yellow framed sunglasses and Gucci travel cases. They couldn’t play in the pond or hide in the vegie patch in that gear.
Anyway tonight at Bengbu, the irrepressible Benjamin Bunny snuck out of the hotel looking for some tasty food to bring back to Mr Jeremy Fisher to brighten up his day. He had lots of fun whipping in and out of restaurants and the side walk stalls. He was particularly impressed with the freshly cooked yabbies, snails and the delicious range of vegies for the hot pot. Jeremy couldn’t help but enjoy the “take in” BB brought back so hopefully things are looking up for Jeremy as he starts to fatten up those long, spindly legs.
Well done! Will you make it to Hangzhou? If not, when will you be in Shanghai?
Hi Anthony
We will be in Nanhui (Shanghai area) on Sunday and may stop over in Hangzhou Sun night if all goes to plan. What is your number and I will call you. Dave
Perfect timing… the weeks delay you have had means you will catch me in a three day holiday… Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I was thinking of going to Shanghai and Hangzhou. Might bring a colleague (from NSW) and a guide from Shaoxing to meet you somewhere… 15967553221.