![]() ![]() ![]() Winters come early and the countryside has lost its beautiful summer greens making way to shades of brown. Occasionally there is a truck selling local produce with the covers pulled back revealing its wares like a stage this season apples the must buy fruit and potatoes the season’s crop. Local stores sell machine parts and cheaply produced brightly coloured household items. There are no street signs and the windows have are frosted over, the condensation from northern Chinese noodles and dumplings frozen over the night. The village streets dotted with low one and two story buildings covered in a film of highway dust. Here everyone seems happy to help even walking from their homes to point the way along the narrow lanes. We followed the Yalu along the north shore, passing the islands where the Japanese had laid their pontoons, turning inland to a small town and asking the locals along the way for directions.
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