Chinese Terraces/pavillions

The architecture is designed to represent Ming dynasty calssical design. It is all made using tradtional methods which include no power tools and this part of the building used no nails- intriguing. The covered walkways were zigzaged so that evil spirits could not get to people (they believed that evil spirits can only move straight ahead) but also it slows down your pace so that you can take in the garden slowly and from several angles (a traditional aspect of the design).

Life Overseas

April 4th 2007
Hi everyone, So sorry it has been ages since our last entry we have been a little hectic...mostly trying to find somewhere to live again as you will see as you read on. So since we put our last blog page up as some of you are aware the place we were in sold so we had two weeks to be out. That was on Thursday the 31st and in that time we have not been able to find somewhere else...so back t ... read more

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