Old Block to the south

These are just some pictures I took on a walk through and around an old block to the south of my apartment on Xiao Wen street.  A picture of this area is shown below.  It's the obvious old area with only one and two story structures.

This is on the street adjacent to my apartment.  I am on my way to the old block to the south.  There are blocks like this all over Ningbo.  The Chinese people that we know refer to them as villages.  They remind me of Beijing's Hutongs. Click on the pictures to see bigger ones.

Now I've turned off an avenue and into an alley that leads through the village.

The streets are very noisy and as soon as I turn into the alley it becomes quite.

The larger alleys lead to smaller ones.

Back out to an avenue on one edge of the old block.

The garbage man winds through the narrow alleys.

Now I'm back out on an avenue again.  I thought this was an interesting picture.  It's just a man in his magazine booth.