外国夫妇穷游中国 钱花光向路人求救

20160712ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题：外国夫妇带4000元欲穷游中国35天 钱花光向过往车辆求救 Lincoln: Now a Belgian couple has come up a little bit short in China on their honeymoon. You You take it away. Yoyo: In China a Belgian couple has gone to the police for help. They are 24-year old newlyweds, and they said that they ran out of money during their honeymoon trip in China. They decided to make a honeymoon trip to China with a budget of just, 4000 Yuan. They came to China and didn’t understand a single word of Chinese. Nick: Interesting. I have many questions for this couple, and I feel like us here in the studio probably can’t answer many of them. The first one is ‘why?’ that’s the biggest question that springs to mind. Yoyo: And also more information coming in, throughout the way, the hitchhiked and managed to travel through three cities in China. First of all they landed in Beijing the capital city, and then they traveled to Datong, a city in the Shaanxi province and then they traveled to Suzhou which is in the Southern Jiansong province and they finally managed to get lost outside of ChongQing which is in South-West China. Nick: So give us some idea of some distances. How far did they go? Yoyo: So the first up from Beijing to Daatong takes about 330 km and then from Daatong to the city of Suzhou, it is about 1400km. And then from Suzhou to ChongQing is about 1600km. Lincoln: This really ridiculous for them to do this. This is the kind of thing that you would see people do in the 80s or whatever; “we’ll just hitchhike and make our way”. No this is nonsense! We live in 2016. There’s technology, there is money at your disposal, and presumably in order to fly back you have to buy tickets return otherwise you can’t get the visa. The only other thing that will come out of this for me as a kind of silver lining is the kindness of the people that they’ve come across. By and large it seems that Chinese people have looked at these people and kind of taken them in. I think the story said that they went to the police station You You. What happened there? Yoyo: The local police officers took them back to the station and provided them with food and drinks. I have to say this reminds me of carpooling. Especially since there are apps where you can ask for carpooling and you can see the background information of that driver if you want to take his car. That guarantees whether that car is safe or not. Rather that than randomly hitchhiking on the road. I think that demands a second thought. Lincoln: It definitely does.