Road Works

tandem4family – Mit der Familienkutsche von Shanghai nach Beijing

After two non-biking days it feels good to be back on the saddle again. It seems I’m becoming a cyclist, after all. We leave the hometown of Confucius quite early and in high spirits, planning on a noodle brunch somewhere on the way. Volker has mapped a route of side-roads that should bring us to Tai’an and the sacred Mt. Tai. On the way out of town a tuk-tuk starts stalking us. The driver follows us closely behind, then overtakes us and slows down in front of us, after we manage to overtake him he speeds again and drives parallel to us. We reach the side road we are supposed to take, and turn. “No, you can’t go there!” – shouts the tuk-tuk driver to us in English. “Where do you go? To Tai’an? – it is here, here.” And he gesticulates towards the interstate which we are just leaving. “I know,” says Volker – “but we want another one!” And on we go, with the tuk-tuk left behind. After a kilometre or two I have a déjà-vu – the occasional cars or motorbikes coming against us seem strangely familiar, as if I have just seen them, but in the other direction. Soon I know why – Road works! And not the Jiangsu-type of road works, when the road is already finished, merely with an earthen barrier at the end of the repaired stretch remaining, but a construction in full swing. No way to make it through!


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