Birthday in Hunan

So I finally found a way around the nasty censorship of this website in China. Here are some photos of the 60th birthday of Chen Yi's mother, in rural Hunan province. It was a great party as usual, and I ate many unfamiliar things (as usual) including snake (and snake heart, snake blood) and turle-soup. I'll let the photos speak for themselves...

Auntie is washing the spicy peppers

A freshly caught snake (we ate snake 2 times)

Me and '66'. Chen Yi's little niece

After killing the snake

66 Playing with the fireworks

A snake in a bag (2 Kg)

Going fishing (for crabs, frogs and little fish)

Red envelopes containing money, presents at the party

On our way to the party. About 80 people came to the restaurant

Changsha train station in the morning

Cheering with rice wine

Drinking snake blood is supposed to be healty

Chen Yi, waiting for dinner

Another niece

A new government building is being built across the street. To be honest, it kind of looks like #$%

New from China

In a little more than 1 week, the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be celebrated, and once again this means a lot of security measures and blocking of websites. I went through a lot of trouble to post this message, as blogspot.com is blocked again.

I just came back from 1 week holidays in Hunan, to celebrate my girlfriend's mother's 60th birthday. It was a great party. We stayed in rural Hunan for 1 week, and had lots of fun.

Unfortunately, I can't post any photos at this time. I need to find another proxy to access blogspot an post pictures.

So stay tuned!

Night photography in a park in Tianjin

Here are some photos my girlfriend made some night, in a park in Tianjin. The park is built on a small hill made from garbage. Now there are trees flowers.