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 Well, we went out and done did things today.

We being my son & I.

Anthony wanted to go out and do some walking.  How our roles have switched!  A year ago, it would have been me wanting to stroll about while Tony was reluctant.  Now, it’s Tony taking the let’s go for a walk initiative.  I go along  with it because it’s good to see him to do so — even if I should be reluctant to walk given my sore right heel.

After we did a little prepping and studying at the Jiangyin apartment , we took a Didi to the area of. the Jiangyin sports stadium.  There, we went to the Jiangyin museum, only to discover it was closed.  So, we crossed the road and went to the nearby mall where, on impulse, I bought a cheap baseball glove. We then wandered the Star City mall for about ten minutes because that’s all there was to see.  We then walked around the stadium — again it was Anthony’s idea — where there was an electronic board that took your picture so that you could go to it again and find out how many meters you had walked around the stadium as well as how many calories you had burned.

Tony decided he wanted to walk to Monte Carlo’s Bistro for food.  Using the phone, we learned it was 1.7 km from the stadium, so we walked. We walked under the freeway that takes one to the Jiangyin Big Bridge, and past the tall and somewhat imposing Jiangyin city government building that looks like it was built in the 1980s.  We visited a park where the great chairman of Hua Xi village had his image included among a display of zhongguo hao ren, 中国好人, Chinese Good People.  The walk improved my Jiangyin bearings because I saw how close the Bistro was to the stadium.

At Monte’s, we had a big meal.  A few people with UK, possibly northern England accents took a table as we sat.  As I say, their accents certainly weren’t poncey.

From Monte’s, we walked towards Ba Bai Ban.  Tony, unbelievably, wanted to walk some more.  We came upon a Metro Station — the Zhongshan Park one to be exact — and, on impulse, made an historical first entry into a Jiangyin S1 line station.  We waited ten minutes for the train that took us to the Jiangyin Train Station.  The stations look like the Wuxi stations I have been to — what will be interesting about the line will be the parts that run above ground line Xiu Xia Ke Road to Wuxi.