Foreigner!

We wander back to the apartment to freshen up, before venturing out again to take a horse and cart on a tour of the city’s interesting and important architecture. OK, most were interesting, but others were no more than social housing blocks, so why they were interesting, or important, I didn’t get. I did feel like a complete tourist though, but then again I suppose we were.

We headed back towards the river for a cruise along there before having some dinner: the walk to the river was great as we got to see, on foot rather than by horse, a lot of the more interesting buildings and architecture - and I feel that we needed the walk after the huge lunch that was still sitting in my stomach! 

We were lucky with the cruise: we were just in time to get the one that was just about to leave so we hurried on. I did hear this Chinese woman shout ‘foreigner!’ as I got on, which made me smile. Nothing like a bit of racism. 

Actually, it was this that made me realise that I’d only seen another 1 or 2 Westerners in all the time we’d been in Tianjin… No wonder people stared and did double takes (most ending with a smile, it has to be said).