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Chinese civic responsibility & a trip to Shanghai

Natalia’s Mum and sister are in town so yesterday we did the obligatry trip down to Shanghai for the day to give them my famous “Shanghai in one day special”.
Having had numerous friends and family make fleeting trips to visit me recently after a near two year drought, I have become quite good at the [...]

Posted 28 July 2008 † Nick § China ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , ,

A Day in Tongli, Suzhou

We took a trip just outside of Suzhou today, to Tongli, a small water town in Wujiang county, just outside of Suzhou. Like Zhouzhuang, Tongli consists of a network of canals interweaving an ancient town and it’s by any stretch of the imagination, much the Suzhou that Marco Polo must have experienced over 500 [...]

Posted 26 July 2008 † Nick § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,