A lazy Sunday

I was tired this morning, Sissi and I went out last night to see another concert of the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra and this time they played Shostakovich and what a powerful piece of music it was. It felt that we were in the middle of a battle in space somewhere, standing on the bridge of the Enterprise about to have a square go with the Klyngons. If you had a weak heart then you could have been in trouble.

After the concert I came home but Sissi stayed out with a friend and didn’t crawl home until the wee hours of the morning, I never heard a thing. So this morning she got up very late and we both decided that because it was raining we should have a lazy day. The pair of us have started to run up the 22 flights of stairs in our apartment block. Sissi had started this for over a week and I only started yesterday. We said that if we do this we can eat more, mind you this is also combined with around an average of 12 km a day.

In the end we headed out for lunch and went to the Vietnamese that we saw last night. Delicious. After which we went to the old city and got my old sandals repaired for about $10 by the old coblar sitting on the street corner, he’s been there for over 20 years I think. He stitched them back together and resoled them and he was quick and every move and cut deliberate.

We walked around the old city avoiding the busy thoroughfares and we stumbled upon a few places that neither had been to before. One fascinating place was this multistory carpark that is automated. You drive your car in on to the hoist and then it gets taken up as you will see below. Brilliant 🙏😁