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Riding bullet train back now, 3 hour 30 min journey on this over a 1 and a half hour plane. China done. Everyone is so nice and friendly in china compared to hk. Even the hotel doesnt seem to scam you, you actually pay more at the door than booking through them. Drive like psychos here but you just trust the process

Bamboo rafting.

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Big ass bridge i crossed.

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An amazing planet we live on.

 

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Come on Bobby, own up which one's you?

Some washing up liquid could come in handy there.

 

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Who is going to Benidorm in November?

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Some proper traveling now. In guilin/yangshuo to see some kharsts. Proper village life here, farm land everywhere, the occasional cow, alpaca, chickens. I even saw some farmers herding ducks. Sort of place pinkie would like to ride his bike. Still though there's cars and taxis everywhere though and **** tons of scooters that half go on the road and half go on the streets threatening to run you over.

You get used to it and the beeping which is constant as they use it to warn they are coming rather than telling you to f off.

A show i watched that used the natural river as a stage

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A cave i went to

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That looks amazing, Bobby.

Great pictures.

 

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god bless you Saffy. Best of luck out there.

 

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It was horrendous mate.

You’re right, it was a very slow moving hurricane and about 30 mile wide. When it hit, it was devastating but it keeps repeating. You think it’s over and then all of a sudden you hear all the seriously loud banging. All the windows blew at the same time in the street I was staying. Never heard a noise like it, honestly thought a few buses had been sweeped up in the storm and smashed against the houses.

It hit us on the Tuesday about 3/4pm. It seemed to last a good while. I went walking out the house when it had finished, then I heard some guy screaming ‘Yo Captain, get back in it’s not finished’, so I did. He wasn’t wrong, less than five minutes later we went through another one. Apparently it’s called a storm surge. That guy saved me from possible serious injury or even worse.

Grateful we don’t have anything like that here.

Over the years I've seen places that I use to frequent in the Everglades and Keys just completely wiped off the map. I always use to try and go at the end of the Hurricane season, the nearer to December generally brings better weather there, that's how I knew you were unlucky to be hit by something on that scale so late in the season and so slow moving.

I've done Christmas and New Year out there and it was nice avoiding the subtropical rain fall you get every summer, with temps averaging around 26c at best, making it so much more pleasent.

I tried to beat a very small storm onetime in my car earlier in the time of year, thinking I can get across one of the many bridges in time, it suddenly dawned on me with the speed of the storm, there's a reason those bridges have pull in areas, not something I ever want to repeat, and it didn't even touch anywhere near what you've been through.

And Jamaica is a lot different to Florida in the sense it does not have the same resources nor econmic ability to recover so quickly. It's good seeing how it brings people together though in time of crisis.

 

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I don’t even know if you’ll know about all of this? I’m assuming because the devastation wasn’t caused by Jews that none of you would have heard about the seriousness of what’s happening out there in Jamaica (Pinkie might have through his friend) and that there’s been no street protests demanding the UK government help us out there? Has it been getting daily coverage? Didn’t think so.

Exactly this.

Pretty much air brushed out, especially by the BBC.

Said as much to Mrs Chief at the time.

 

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Does this work for everyone?

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/9prI9ImCZHc

This is the hotel that I always stayed at. I went there about 3 hours after the storm had finished to check on all the people that I knew and walked into this. One of the safest and strongest on the island. I reckon the 5* has probably been downgraded now

Works for me - dramatic footage mate...

 

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Thought as much.

Just seen on the news that Israel have killed somebody today. That’ll be all they bang on about for a week or so, now.

Don’t take this the wrong way Saf but you’re in an area of the world that suffers from these types of events annually. Rightly or wrongly, unless you're caught up in it, it’s not newsworthy and usually the Yanks deal with it.

 

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You’re wrong there, mate.

I’m in this area annually and they’ve never ever suffered like this before.

Israel and Palestinians kill each other annually so why is that newsworthy?

Mate, the whole world knows that between May to end of October is hurricane season. Unfortunately this one has been worse than others but it’s not a unique phenomenon for those parts, which is why it doesn’t make the news. I’m not trying to belittle what’s gone on, only explain why the news channels haven’t really picked up on it.

 

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