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From: "bubbles" <>
Subject: Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Back again !
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 11:04:21 +0100
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Dear Thelma, Great to hear about your trip, I'm just back from a week on the
Nile - I, like you, wasn't prepared for what I would see. Absolutely
wonderful and I want to go again to build on what I saw this time.
Could you please let me know what the food was like, the food on our boat
wasn't that great and we all had a touch of Pharaohs Revenge. I've said I'm
not bothered about China, but I wasn't bothered about the Nile, I've been to
Cairo before, but after what I've seen this time - I'm prepared to try
anywhere.
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Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Back again !


> Hi Folks,
>
> I shall be re-starting the list of 1881 Census Boatmen & Allied trades in
a
> day or two, when I have finished unpacking, washing, ironing etc, but I
> thought you might be interested in what I have been up to apart from
Canadian
> visitors and daughters etc !
>
> I arrived back yesterday from a three week holiday in China ! If you are
> perhaps thinking that Igot right away from Boatmen----WRONG !
>
> I spent three days on a cruise of the Yangste River on a five star
boat--and
> although it was in flood about 15-20 ft above normal it didn't detract
from
> the trip at all.
>
> At some after this this we did a day cruise down the Li River from Guilin
> (which is beautiful in itself) and we sailed through some of the most
> beautiful and unusual scenery I have ever seen in my life.
>
> Later in the trip we sailed for three hours down the "Grand Canal" to
Suzhou,
> I have never ever seen so much commerical traffic on a canal before.
Barges--
> huge ones four abreast and if they were Government owned,--10 or 12 roped
> together in a line being pulled by a tug. They carried everything from
sand,
> lime and coal, building materials, crates of this and that, vegetables,
> timber etc.etc. It must be the busiest canal in the world and is 1200
> kilometres long-- or is is miles ?? I lost track !
>
> at Zhouzhuang we wetn on another boat trip and saw lots of sampans, some
> carrying tourists and some cargo. This town is criss-crossed by canals.
>
> Absolutely fascinating, I wouldn't have missed the trip for worlds. Of
course
> there were other things like the Great Wall, the Terracotta Army and the
> Forbidden City, amongst numerous other sights and gardens we were taken
to,
> and to crown it all for some unexplained reason my daughter, her husband
ar
> travelled in luxury, which made a wonderful end to the holiday.
>
> I will send another list when I have been able to gather my scattered
wits!
>
> Regards Thelma
>
>
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