JD is still off school with a cough and cold, but I reckoned he was well enough for a little outing this morning. First, we took a bus to the nearest subway station to have a ride on an underground train or two. JD loved the sliding doors and escalators. We finally got off at the Kunming Railway Museum. I've taken JD there before, about a year ago, but he didn't seem to remember. A year is a long time if you're only 2½ years old!
The Museum is pretty good and seems to have a lot more English now than it did before, some of which seems to have been written by a historian with a major grudge against the West...
The Museum is pretty good and seems to have a lot more English now than it did before, some of which seems to have been written by a historian with a major grudge against the West...
They also have various exhibits from the time when the French had a narrow-gauge railway running though Yunnan, and a large warehouse with a collection of real trains - from steam engines to high-speed diesels. Some four years ago, Ava and I had a series of wedding photos taken inside some of these trains and carriages, but now they are all cordoned off with signs telling you not to climb or touch anything!
I was a little suspicious of one steam engine, however, which has a cast steel emblem of the place where it was built - Philadelphia, USA. But tell me, would the Americans really have spelled the name of their own city wrongly??
I was a little suspicious of one steam engine, however, which has a cast steel emblem of the place where it was built - Philadelphia, USA. But tell me, would the Americans really have spelled the name of their own city wrongly??
