Pig Home's Corner is a watertown about two hours by car from Shanghai. Its Chinese name is Zhujiajiao, one of the many Chinese 'zhu' means pig, but not the one of the watertown, 'jia' means home, house and 'jiao' means corner. So even though the first part in reality doesn't mean pig, it was easier to remember it like that. At the same time of my business trip, a Chinese colleague-friend from Beijing was also in Shanghai for a training. So we decided to do an out-of-town trip together and the wife of a university colleague of hers, who lives in Shanghai, joined us with her daughter.
That was fun! Zhujiajiao was a good choice because there were hardly any tourists there and I would say it equals or is even more beautiful than other watertowns around Shanghai.
The trip didn't start that well. The Shanghai friend picked us up from our hotel, but she didn't know the way to the highway so she stopped next to a policemen and wanted to ask him the way, but before she could say a word, he told her she was not allowed to stop / drive here and imposed her a fine. A Shanghai women with hot temper of course doesn't accept that, but starts arguing. Ten minutes of shouting later, we drove on and she still had to pay the 100 kuai fine. From that on we didn't ask policemen for the way anymore.
In Zhujiajiao we strolled around the anicent town with its beautiful bridges, took many photos, shopped some things including each one of us a Chinese style hairpin in a different colour so we all pinned up our hair in the same ancient Chinese style. We also visited a tea house where Apple (that was the English name of the daughter) played the 古琴 / Guqin for us, a Chinese style zither. Last but not least a boat trip around was a perfect end to our visit of the Pig Home's Corner.
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