Published by Swiss James on 23 Jan 2008
Last of the Harbin
It’s not all frostbite and wondering whether you’ll be able to find the fly of your trousers quickly enough in Harbin. They’ve also got a town that’s full of shops selling fake Russian goods (tip for fake vodka producers: don’t drink the stuff before you try to glue the labels on straight) and a beautiful Russki style church.
Inside the church was a bit odd, there’s no altar, a gift shop at the entrance and for no apparent reason a choir wearing dinner suits (and ski trousers) got up to sing “Santa Lucia” in Chinese [which is something that happened very rarely at my parish church in Doncaster].
