Day trippers

Most visitors are day trippers from Shanghai so the town is busy between 12.00 and 16.00. That's a good time for our siesta, the picture was taken from a bar where the local beer was tested and found to be good, especially when they, probably mistakenly, only charged us £1 a pint (600ml).

Water Towns

March 24th 2014
Geo: 31.1547, 120.723As previously advertised we are spending a couple of days doing very little to get our feet rested from all the sites and museums. We are in a town called Tongli which is one of the "water towns" to the east of Shanghai (for some reason it gets the district name of Suzhou from the Travelpad mapping tool). Tongli is supposedly full of old historic houses built arou ... read more

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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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