Guilin, China (3)

The 7th being our last day in Guilin was spent (as usual in Susie Lawless' company) climbing hills to temples - in this case the poetically named Solitary Beauty Peak, once the site of a walled city for the Ming Dynasty Princes. And still containing the original stone walls and (reproduction) wooden buildings, the originals having been burnt down by the Japanese.

But they did enable one to attempt the examinations made for their court - Ciaran scored zero being unable even to write his name in Mandarin

And some of the locals were well shrunken from age, towering over 7 year old Romany by an inch at most.

But Romany's likely abiding memory will be of being set upon by enthusiastic local tourists who requested the opportunity to have a photo taken with a small blue eyed pale girl. She took it all in good grace and was always willing.