Carrefour

The local Carrefour has truly embraced its French heritage with one of the largest frescos I have ever seen showing various images of Paris. Truly exceptional artwork.

 Outside the Louvre. Quite a fan of the Pandas trying to climb the drain, whilst some Frenchman stares at them.

 And finally the necessary cafe scene. Altogether much more fun than Asda

Pooch in Boots

An ever increasing trend among the Chinese is to slips their dogs paws into two little pairs of shoes. Tacky yet really quite funny.

You can see the owner of this particular dog on the right of the picture, with an equally horrible trouser and shoe combination

The Louis Vuitton Dress

On my way back from dinner I papped this little princess

Shameless

Busted in the train station

A night at karaoke

Having met a charming Chinese lady down south in Dali, we went with her to KTV, a karaoke bar, where she put on this song....

The full video is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9-VGY9Qz-M

Colourful animals

This is first of many dyed dogs and animals i've seen. A particularly strange thing to do to your pet, yet never fails to make me laugh.

When it rains

Little plastic bags tied around dogs to keep them dry. How sweet.

Suspicious drink

An odd choice of after-dinner drink

Welcome

Hello reader, my name is Tom. Welcome to my blog. I've been living in China for two months now studying mandarin.  I'm not going to bore you with lots of writing, I'm just going to give you glimpse of this great nation and its comical pets with a few photos. Enjoy.