Saying difficult goodbyes in the shadowless city
Sunday, October 28th, 2007The city of Chengdu, center of Sichuan; China‘s “spiciest” province! A land more accustomed to laziness, where an unfortunately consistent stream of bad weather reigns supreme. It seems as if every single minute of the nine days in the city were plagued by an unbroken cover of grey. Occasionally a glow of sunlight would show though a less dense patch of clouds, but more often a haze would form so thick that the horizon would be completely obscured. At first the effect was tolerable, but soon the dreariness shadowing any desire for “Carpe Diem” was the only shadow to be found. [read on]