Street scene

A Wuhan street scene This photograph was taken in a Wuhan side street on a walk through the city on the day of my arrival. Wuhan in August is very, very hot, and shorts were standard.

Wuhan appeared much more cosmopolitan than Xian. I didn't see a single other European on my walk, but hardly anybody gave me a second glance.

In the more provincial city of Xian, I would have attracted a crowd of people who would have stood and stared, which cound be very disconcerting. But Wuhan was a busy industrial city and people had better things to do than stare at Europeans.