Nov 30, 2016

Monday morning visit into the main city

I had to go into Suzhou city to the Suzhou International Travel Healthcare Center to get my medical reports verified. I had gone through a checkup in Bengaluru before the visa could be processed, and they have a process to verify the tests or undergo them again if required. In my case, it turns out they wanted to do a Hepatitis C test (which had not been done in Bengaluru) so they took some blood.

The relocation specialist accompanied me, language is a barrier and obviously I didn't know the process or even where to go. She summoned a cab, with a lady driver, and I got my first taste of Monday morning traffic as we drove into the middle of Suzhou. Roads were still good outside of the SIP and the traffic wasn't really too bad, considering it was Monday morning (certainly much better than Blr). I saw some older houses, apartments - reminds me of old Mumbai flats.
Not many e-bikes out where we went, I've only seen them in the SIP area. They also have their own paths and don't seem to worry much about traffic signals.

Some of my observations: Extensive set of flyovers. Mostly disciplined traffic. Police boxes. New construction going on in a lot of places.

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