the team bus ( iphone photos )

i was in beijing with a team...

it was a little bit like the a-team i guess.

or maybe like entourage... or the magnificent seven.

what i mean is, we all had our roles.

the team was:

the driver

the photographer

the writer

the chef

the boss

the boss's boss

and we travelled around in a team bus.

here are a few iphone photos i took while travelling around china.

in some of the shots the driver wasn't going the wrong way

( but that's another story )

1

one of the first things i noticed was that the roads around beijing still

had the markings on them from when they were olympic lanes...

4 years ago.

2

do not drive tiredly.

hmmm... i think our driver must have been blinking whenever this sign

came along.

3

he wasn't the only one.

i've got to say, during the trips to shanghai a couple of months ago and

to beijing the other week, i have never seen such scant regard for the rules

of the road.

and you've got to have rules right ?

because if we didn't have rules, where would we be ?

4

there's our driver.

it's hard to tell from here but he is parked right on the corner of a busy

junction. this was during one of the many times he got lost.

he would park up in a dangerous place and go walkabout to ask people for directions.

hmmm...

5

the journeys were long ones due to the driver's skills.

some team members would nod off... others would take photos.

6

once again it's hard to tell here but this is an example of ignoring the rules.

red lights and zebra crossings mean nothing to the drivers of beiing.

7

i knew we were almost home when we would drive past a few bars lit with bright signs.

these were just around the corner from the opposite house.

through one of the windows here you can just about see a girl dancing.

( funnily enough, even though this was maybe 100 yards from our hotel and

he'd done the trip maybe 6 times already, the driver still managed to get lost )