Today my friend led me astray. I ventured into the unknown looking for 1253 Daduhe Lu where the Jingdezhen Ceramics Art Center is located. And I was quite surprised when the taxi drive went a different way than the map said in my guidebook. I kept my cool, as maybe the taxi driver knew a short cut to this museum, afterall he is more familiar with this city that I. When the taxi driver pulled over and said we are here, he pointed out the passenger side window. I turned and looked, and saw.... a lumber yard. Hmmm something was not right. I explained in my broken Chinese, where I was trying to go and I showed him my map. So he turned around and headed in the direction I though the museum was located. We came across some of the landmarks the map had, but still no museum. I finally got out of the taxi, as I think I was annoying the poor man, and headed on foot toward where I thought the museum should be according to the map. No museum. I aske some of the locals where the museum was and no one had heard of it. I walked half an hour towards 1253 Dadhe Lu where the book said the museum was located, and came to... the lumber yard. I went and spoke with a man working in the lumber yard and (I think) he told me that there is no museum here at 1253. (I'm not quite sure what he actually said because he only spoke to me in Chinese, and my Chinese isn't that good) Finally I turned around and headed back to the metro stop. Half an hour later I arrived to the metro and headed home. I was too tired to be annoyed or to venture out to do something else...
I now have reservations about my friend, the guidebook. I think from now on I'll call ahead to make sure the museum is still there.
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