Dragon boats
Mai 28th is dragon boat festival in China. But without dragon boats for us. As we found out a little late, there are no dragon boat races on our house lake. OK, so let's enjoy the great feeling of family and intimity in middle of a crowd. Let's go downtown. A lot of things were going on there like English quiz or a drum workshop.

English Quiz    "Wir trommeln uns gemeinsam in die Menstruation Workshop"

The street sweepers are pretty busy at these days. The village shall look nice and clean during the festival days.

Strassenkehrerin    Baurbeiten am Feiertag

It was really crowded downtown, hard to find a place to park the e-bikes. And it's pretty hot also.

E-Bike Parkplatz    ein durstiger Chinese

Too many people downtown, so let's try the time square. On the way to it we stopped over to take a look to the art, we've seen quite often but never took a closer look. And flowers watching. And we found a very nice tricycle which isn't art but daily used by the gardeners here.

Kunst in Suzhou    Nochmehr Kunst in Suzhou
Blumenmeer    Gärtnerfahrrad

Each single flagpole has a sign, which flag it belongs to. Now we know the chinese characters for Germany. The other pictures has something to do with Feng Shui. But don't ask us, what sense it is. Building paths to concrete walls or paint a roof in deep blue is ok, but if you'd try to hang a picture to a wrong wall in your living room........

Fahnenmasten    "Unsere Fahnenmastbeschriftung"
Blaues Wunder am Big Ben    Die Wege des Herrn sind unergründlich oder so ähnlich

The art in the park is highly accepted by the Suzhounese, or at least no body minds having a nap next to it.

und noch mehr Kunst    Siesta

Next stop modern Plaza. This is a complete new areal next to the SSCAC (the theater). As you see, Suzhou isn't that far behind Dubai, Los Angeles or Shanghai. Believe the Chinese.

Modern Plaza    Modern Plaza
Modern Plaza    Modern Plaza

Any more questions? If there are also Chinese people in this area? For sure and in all ages. Including the suiting trousers.

noch etwas skeptischer Chinese    Schnellfeuer Hosen
Noch mehr Architektur    a little bit more details than I had to know.....
Ballonverkäufergeldzählzigarettenpausemacher    Modern Plaza

Wow, this was a big load of fresh air today. As a perfect ending of the day it would be great having a beer and maybe some BBQ. Coincidently Massimo called and we had a spontanous BBQ party at their roof terrace. Perfecto.....

Grillparty    Grillparty

This is by the way the same roof terrace where we'll watch the solar eclipse on July 22. But this is as always a completely different story.......

Bikes

Bikes...
 
....are still very important. And nice to take pictures of......

Bikes

Bikes

Bikes