A destination of millions of bicycles…and a wedding to attend.
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Note: This entry was created after our arrival back in Ottawa due in part to our limited time and more importantly to a poorer choice of Internet Café in our… Read more
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Note: This entry was created after our arrival back in Ottawa due in part to our limited time and more importantly to a poorer choice of Internet Café in our… Read more
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Note: This entry was created after our arrival back in Ottawa due in part to our limited time and more importantly to a poorer choice of Internet Café in our… Read more
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Wednesday was a bit of an emotional morning as Jenny, his brother and I left Shanghai for Suzhou (100km west) by train to visit Jenny’s parents burial plot. From Suzhou,… Read more
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Clearly, Jenny’s nephew’s wedding was the highlight of our stay in Shanghai. An event richer than our Great Wall treek and for which few “laowai” (foreigner) has ever attended. The… Read more
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Jenny’s brother had been keeping in touch with a few families from their old hutong neighborhood where Jenny’s family lived prior to 1993 when they were expropriated to a northern… Read more
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Last Friday, we left Xi’an for Shanghai with Air China. Our arrival in Shanghai marked the beginning of a more personal trip – a bit off the tourist trail. We… Read more
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Our last day in Beijing was spent walking around hutongs and alleyway boutiques. We had some excellent Peking Duck for lunch in a very remote area of a hutong. Jenny… Read more
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It seems the jet lag was worse than I first thought… on the last entry I was off by one day (i.e. Monday was actually Tuesday, etc.) Also, a note… Read more
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Just back from visiting the Imperial Summer Palace in the far northwest of Beijing. We found a great Internet Café in the university area (i.e. smokeless, XP English version with… Read more