Shenzhen: Gimme Gimme!

Hit the Lao Jie (Old Street) markets on the way back from our Guangzhou ballet weekend escape (see yesterday's blip).

We were in search of costume hire places as it's 'Book Week' at school and come Thursday we need to be dressed up as a book character (the perils of teaching no one ever warned me about). We failed to find costumes in this area but we did see some sights, such as this portrait of rampant consumerism - the possibility of free 3G phones dangled in front of the desperate...