Aunt betty (8)

The first stop on her travels was to China, and while we’ve always asked Aunty what she was doing there, she cannot confirm or deny her being in Beijing as of April 1989. Although remains tight lipped to this day, she has hinted many times to have been hanging around a particular square during that month. For some reason Aunt says she had to ‘skedaddle’ out of China pretty quick. She mentioned a man carrying shopping bags buying her a train ticket as thanks for helping him out of a sticky situation. Aunt hopped on the Trans-Siberian Railway the next morning, and after trading lunches and a few language lessons with a stocky Mongolian woman, they soon became fast friends. Aunt Betty still sends us little hand-carved wooden horses every time she goes to visit her old friend in Ulaanbaatar. Show Less