Published by Swiss James on 26 Nov 2007 at 11:12 am
At the funfair! (Part I)
The thing with some people is that they do not respect the natural cycle of life.
For every Spring there must be an autumn, for every snowflake, a sunbeam- for every death, a birth (unless loads of people die and no-one is born, like in Florida).
In short, after a Friday night drinking binge, I should not be woken before 3pm. Minimum.
Emma this means you.
Emma woke me up at the crack of midday on Saturday to go to a funfair on the far west of the city. This place was so far west in fact, that by the time we got there the taxi driver had turned the radio up to cover the noise of my teeth grinding.
Still, once you’re there, it’s a lovely place- 70RMB lets you enjoy pretty much all of the attractions (+20RMB for the giant ferris wheel), and the queues are a lot shorter than say, buying cooking oil from Carrefour.
They’ve got a ghost train. I wouldn’t class it as the scariest thing in the park.
The ferris wheel is the main attraction- it’s 108m high which doesn’t sound like much when you’re on the ground, but Ooo-wee. When you’re up there and you hear the bolts creaking, thoughts about China’s shaky safety reputation start running through your mind…believe me- it’s high enough.
In fact let’s not beat around the bush- I was frigging terrified; palms sweating, face locked in a grimace, wondering whether vomiting on the floor would unbalance the tiny glass gondola we were trapped in. Emma was having a lovely time looking at the train tracks and spotting the bridges in the distance, I felt like the Senator’s daughter in “Silence Of The Lambs“.
Here’s a photo of me, trying not to be physically ill.
锦江乐园 is in the South of Shanghai isn’t it?
Jinjiang Park, nah I think it’s West isn’t it, go past it every day on the way to work, maybe slightly South West.
Are you sure it was midday Creegan, I reckon Emma was having you on, looks like it was still dark in that first picture.
Is the Ferris Wheel air conditioned JC, always wondered, they’d be hell in the summer if they’re not.
Well now see I took the first photo at the end of a lovely day, it was definitely early doors when we set off.
I had all of this North / West / South business when I wrote about the Zoo at Hongqiao so I tried to make sure this time. It’s more West than anything else I reckon.
There’s a fan in the carriage, but air conditioned is stretching it a bit. Presumably you can just open the door if it gets a bit warm.
Very nice tie in to the Carrefour fiasco. Would it have been too much trouble to link to the blog post in question on your old mate’s blog - lord knows I could do with the exposure.
Nice purse by the way and don’t try pretending it’s Emma’s.
It would hardly be a subtle link if I just put a reference to your blog in now would it?!
Anyway, it’s a Le Sportsac bag- they’re unisex(y)
Is that “you ‘n I sexy”? Yes, Le Sportsac were very in, oh about 15 years ago.
Isn’t the men’s version called Le Spurtsac?
I think jinjiang sucks though
but there lamb sticks outside the entry are awesome.
^_^
Why does the mummy look like it has a hard on?
The two girls in the carriage obviously aroused him although they don’t really float my boat!