Fredrick Paget on thu 13 may 04
In just a week now I will be off for my second trip to Jingdezhen in
China. Setting Clayart to NOMAIL.
Actually about my eighth trip to China because I made about six trips
there when I was in the Merchant Marine, Right after the WWII, I
worked as movie operator/sound electrician on the President liner
President Cleveland and we made a round trip every six weeks. That
was before they had airliners that could make it across the ocean.
All that and I only know about two words of Chinese. But I have a
little hand held talking translator that I bought in Japan two years
ago. It speaks Chinese and 7 other languages as well. I wonder how
long it will be before we have translators that can listen and
translate?
Along the way we are going to stop in Yixing where they make those
deep maroon unglazed teapots from a local clay called purple sand
clay.
Then it is on to Yellow Mountain and Jingdezhen for the One thousand
Year millennium celebration of the start of Porcelain making there in
the Song Dynasty.
After that a tour of Yunnan Provence in the far south of China where
the Flying Tigers were based during WWII.
Right now China is the Number one travel bargain in the world. The
Yuan is still pegged to the dollar at the same rate it was 2 years
ago while the Euro and other floating currencies have devaluated the
dollar.
Fred
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From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
fredrick@well.com
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