Most of my work requires me to go to the towns surrounding Ningbo. While it tends to get boring, there's one thing that never fails to cheer me up. It is scenery.
There are no true mountains on my way, but they have plenty of beautiful hils here. The car emerges from the tunnel and suddenly you find yourself surrounded by fields. There would be a small village somewhere between the hills, green and picturesque from the distance. Half the houses there would be covered with crudely painted advertisements.
Another turn and there are factories on both sides... then abruptly there are fields and orchards, and some lost seabird is trying to get back to the sea. Heavy trucks are overtaking farmers on three-wheeled motorcycles loaded with some indeterminamble stuff...
And then it's small factory surrounded by fields and small village... and it's only fields again. All of a sudden some twenty-storey building is standing surrounded by fields. two more turns and you finally arive to the town of Cixi, not quite beleiving it, half-expecting it to vanish. It's hard to get tired of this road...
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