Saturday September 18th - Return To WuhanThe bus back to Gongan from Sunny's home village leaves just once a day in the morning so we got up around dawn and Sunny went down to Grandfathers house to say goodbye to him and it seemed pretty much every neighbour on the street was up and about and wanted to say a few words of greeting, this is a real tight-knit community it seems.The uncle that we met last night in our bedroom gave Sunny a little money and his best wished which was nice and as she was talking to him I saw the bus coming.
The road is very slow going so there was no rush to get back to uncles house . They had already brought our bags to the roadside anyhow and we said our good byes ad got onto the bus for Gongan along with Sunny's father.
When we arrived there Sunny's father wanted to get a drum of oil for a relative in Guangzhou - apparently the locally produced oil has a better flavour. Problem was we had all our luggage with us and the road and pavement are in bits so it made carrying them extremely difficult, never mind the 30c+ heat and getting hotter by the minute.
Sunny called a cab and we took it to the oil place where he waited with us until Sunny's father got the oil and he then dropped him off at the bus station for the bus back to Guangzhou for the father and took us to another place where we could get a cheap bus back to Wuhan (70 rmb instead of 100).
It wasn't due for a little while so we had breakfast in a restaurant (well, a food stall with a bunch of seats and tables on the pavement is a better description) by the place the bus was going to stop.
Presently it arrived and we got the bus to Wuhan , with one changeover along the way to got to the specific part of Wuhan wer are staying in this time.
The bus driver didn't exactly inspire confidence - at one point he to a wrong turn in oncoming traffic on the motorway, i kid you not!! He went about 400 meters before he realised his error, by then my terrror levels were set a max!!
Back home this would have let to panic and carnage on the motorway but not here, he just reversed to keep with the traffic flow until there was a gap in the traffic and then did a U turn, no I am not making this up!!
We arrived in Wuhan safely and got checked into a nice hotel and had a little rest then went for a meal in a restaurant near the hotel.
After that we went down to the Yangtze river and walked along it in the moonlight and goofed around for a couple of hours, it was very nice.
Compared to the last few days this was peace and quiet and well needed
