A really old post that I never finished...

A topic worth blogging about is the recent arrival of Cold Rock, or as it's known here, Cold Stone! Turns out Suzhou is not so bad after all! Two Cold Stones have opened up within walking distance of our apartment, in the last month or so. It is all very exciting as ice-cream is one of those things that is hard to get (the good stuff) over here.

Above is a photo of the humungous crowd that were out to see the Olympic flame a few weeks ago. This photo was taken during one of those classic crowd dynamics moments, where one dude starts running and it starts everyone running in the same direction for no reason. There was a huge crowd surge and there was actually nothing to see. The patriotism was a little edgy at times, with thousands of people chanting and running, it all felt just a touch like it was on a knife's edge.