Hugh in China.
Hugh has had all sorts of trouble sending photos from China, so these are not in synch with his broadcast reports. Sorry.
But you remember the report from Xinjiang in western China? He visited a farm where one of the Chinese Olympic athletes grew up. Here are Hugh's words and pictures.
Mehmet Tursun Chong, (centre) Chinese Olympic boxer in a family snap provided by...
...his father Chong Mehmet and his mother Nurunsahan Reyim. Mehmet Tursun was away training. I'm hoping to catch up with him in Urumchi.
Cousins at the farm. The village is called Yizebah, which means Orchard Village in Uighur. Uighur is everyone's first language here - it is related to Turkish.
Grandson Merlan Jan.
Chong Mehmet with the feast he and his wife laid on for us. There was mutton soup, delicious cold chicken, round 'nun' bread, 'sambusa' (somosa)....
...and peaches and nuts, and apricots from his own trees. They also farm cotton and wheat. Here's a sense of the neighbourhood:
And here are Chong Mehmet and Nurunsahan Reyim teaching baby Merlan Jan to wave good-bye:"
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