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My road : Qingdao, Jiaonan, Rizhao, Ganyu, Lianyungang, Guanyun, Funing, Dongtai, Rugao, Lu Yan, Jiading, Shanghai, from 11 to 2006-01-20.

My return to China made me stay few days in Qingdao, the weather is not convenient to drive by the cold which reigns. My journey is to descend to Shanghai where people wait for me and where I have to do up like new my cycle. Qingdao is located on a peninsula, the ferry allows me to cross and avoids me a big bend. For take back the road, the sun and softness are present, the legs always efficient and pleasure intact. From the first day, I lead a long step, fearing for the next day, but without consequences. On the second evening in Ganyu, the police arrived in my room, we have even come from superiors, this by the fact that I housed in the simplest there is. They are worried to see a tourist there, looking at my passport, but my journey and my bike will do effect. I am going through a flat area, interspersed with numerous canals. In the countryside, I discovered the work of women who are with a machine to make mats of straw rice. In the villages, it is the everyday life that appears under my eyes, stopping there to bring people to come towards me. The region is active and large population, on the road some people go about, whether on foot, by bicycle or pushing something.

In the sixth day after Qingdao, the weather is spoiling and move to the rain. I do not want to ride in its conditions, and on the verge of change my departure. Finally I start but on a slippery and dirty road. On several evenings, I should wash the bike and bags. The next day and the following days, the rain is there, ending each day soaking and being cold. But I do not mean stop, it would be put back this time to when. Yet, people invite me to stay with them and do not understand that I travel by bicycle. Every place I lodge, it is a true solidarity that I receive. To Nantong, I arrived on the famous Yang Tse Kiang, a name present in me. But the bad weather prevents me to contemplate it. To Lu Yan, we want to talk about me, a girl where I lodge convene journalists of a newspaper. This is a full page that we dedicated to me.
The next day, driving under a heavy rain, I stop in Zhi Tang without able to leave. The family Liü on which I meet, keeps me with it, telling me, "looks at the weather, stay with us." Then I am drive at home to get a rest and dry. In the evening, I am invited to the restaurant for a dinner, a time in family and a memory that I mark. In the morning, we are again to keep me with them, but I want to finish with Shanghai and these days of rain. I continue my road with a calm weather. I really do not know the distance that separates me with it, but I think that today it is for my arrival. In route I take contact with the people who wait for me. We plan the meeting to People's Square in the city center. It’s with a Chinese map that I crossed Shanghai. It’s not easy to me and a woman by bike will come to drive me to the appointment. I found Razia, and made the meeting with Aric.

In Shanghai, I will stay for 2 weeks, lodge in the Kessaria’s family, in company with Goulam, Razia and their 3 daughters, Souraya, Sona and Douraya. It is a meeting again with these people who discovered me so soon Pakistan. The stay will be superb, I can relax, find family life, and surrender my bike to new. Every moment is precious, with Goulam in major discussions or bicycle ride, with Razia who will make every effort to find the furniture that I want, also recalling memories of Madagascar, making me discover his passions. It is the meeting also of their friends to spend evenings friendly. And then there's the small Doudou curious about the life I lead, and that makes me share her games. Meeting a young woman, Wangli, passionate about my adventure, will do its utmost so that the Chinese press talking about me, from a national publication. The time of a day, with Aric, an American, I can go and discover the city, going as far as meeting itself at the top of the tower Jin Mao, overhanging Shanghai from the 86th floor, about 400 meters from the ground , and is currently considered as the 4th skyscraper in the world by its height.