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Night on the canal 3

The small town of Suzhou

November 20th 2010
We made our way from Shanghai to Suzhou on the high-speed train (our first one in China, actually first one ever for both of us). It was super comfortable with tons of leg room and we were impressed with our top speed that reached 250 kph. More on high-speed trains in our next blog entry... For some reason we had convinced ourselves that Suzhou would be a nice small town ("charming" in the wo ... read more
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Chinese Flag For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more
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