Alone again, heading into Guangxi
The gap in posts the last couple of days was a result of my being joined on the road by eight cyclists from the Hong Kong cycling club ‘Danche ji you’. We rode a couple of hundred km as a group over Good Friday and Easter Saturday, through hilly county between Zhaoqing up to the border with Guangxi, which we crossed yesterday evening. Thanks especially to Eliza and Kitty in charge of the cuisine department we ate very well along the road. In a village on the River He these two ladies reviewed all the produce the surrounding farms could provide, discussed with the local eating house, and this is the menu we had:
Lunch on easter saturday at Duping village:
Sweet potato leaves with garlic
Scrambled egg with bitter gourd
Steamed tofu with spring onions
Hejiang fish with braised with pickled herbs and soy sauce
Spare pork ribs in black bean sauce
Pig kidney and liver stir fried with chives
Sweet yam with pork belly stewed
Garlic dried morning grloru stir fried
Soup with local water cress and pork
Rice (lots)
Last night we ate a last dinner together here in Wuzhou with 23 dishes including 8 dofferent typed of pancake. Hope I can still pedal myself along after all this. Thanks a lot to all the club for a great two days together on this long road. And thanks for bringing my tennis partner Kakee as a surprise! Will miss you all.
Now I’m going on alone into Guangxi Province. Sun coming thru now after chilly morning mist. Glad to see the sun as it suddenly feels quite lonely now the whole crew’s gone. Going to buy a Guangxi province map. Hope Xinhua bookstore has got a nice detailed one.