Today Ros took us to the Stationery market. 3 floors of kiosks selling everything and anything loosely connected with office or school supplies. Amazing, I've never seen so many variations on pen, pencil and notebook. All through the tourist areas we were offered 'genuine Rolex watch' and 'handabag' and clip on wheels to go on our shoes. We then visited the 'embellishments' market to get the net for the wedding. There were stalls with buttons, buckles and baubles of all descriptions, zips & zebra print, lace in hundreds of designs - it was all totally bewildering.

From there to YU ( waiyou) gardens where the tourist market was very picturesque and the central lake had the biggest goldfish we've ever seen. We saw pearls being prised out of oysters at the side of the road. This area was lined with small shops selling tea sets, hand painted pictures, lanterns and dragon kites, all the things typically associated with China, as well as some odd looking street food: octopus fried on a stick, sugar cane juice and what might have been crickets fried in batter.

Today Pete had arranged for a driver to collect us from the apartment. This was a brilliant way to experience the roads. Traffic turning left from the right hand lane of 6, scooters on the pavements and zebra crossings, pedal trikes loaded down with flowers, pets, hats and sunglasses. Children balanced on the running boards of electric scooters, their parents riding the wrong way along one way streets. Bikes and scooters had no lights on in the dark and drivers weave their way through pedestrians on the crossings, sometimes parallel with the crossings on red lights.