Well I had a lot planned for today, but it didn't work out as planned. After waking up and getting myself sorted, I headed out to the reganmian place for breakfast. The noodles were even better than last time. I didn't think that was possible. I could eat every meal there, but force myself to branch out a bit. I headed back to my place for a post breakfast coffee and to make a rough plan for the day. I had a look on my map app and found a couple of places nearby that I wanted to visit. The first was Dongshan Temple that was located really close to the ancient city. It only took me about ten to fifteen minutes to walk there, but when I got there, I could see it was boarded ... read more

National Day holiday, seven days off work, something I have been looking forward to a lot. To make life easier, I decided to stay in Shenzhen, but go to Dapeng, which is pretty far east. This city just sprawls and sprawls. It would take me about two and a half hours to get there, plus I thought it would take longer due to the terrible holiday traffic. First it was the subway, which I thought would be the easiest part, but turned out to be the most annoying. Due to Covid (I know the rest of the world has got over it, but not China), Guangdong province (or maybe just Shenzhen) has a policy where you have to scan in places, but of course the system only works if you have a mainland ID number, normally ... read more

Shenzhen Museum is located in the heart of Shenzhen in the Civic Centre complex at Futian. Booking a ticket online was fairly straight forward using their WeChat account/mini programme, I can't remember which one it was, and the WeChat translate function. Getting in was pretty straight forward too, health code check, green arrow (travel code) check, and then ticket check. I don't think the woman even looked at my ID. I was happy to get out of the heat and into the air conditioned building. The museum has three floors and I started on the ground one. The first exhibition that I had a look around was a temporary exhibition, since it was a temporary one, there were no English explanations and not even the name was in English so I was pretty clueless as to ... read more

Another day, another hike. I have to get them in before the weather gets too hot and humid and I retreat to curl up under my air con for the summer. Since it was a holiday, I thought the trails might be busy. I headed from the subway up to the park entrance. I was surprised that there wasn't too many people around. The guard actually checked to see that my health code was green, which I'd never had done there before. They must be being stricter because it is a holiday. The walk up the road to the start of the trails was quite busy, but not too bad. Just before reaching the trails, I popped into my favourite public toilets in the whole of China, still spotless. I wish everywhere was like this. There ... read more

Shenzhen Bay Park has its own metro station so is very easy to get to. I had been in the area before, but since the weather that day had been pretty bad, I'd skipped having a look around the park. Since the weather was better today, I decided to stretch my legs with a nice walk in the park. When I came out of the metro station it was quite busy with people having a look at the view and deciding where they wanted to go. The park stretches for 13 kilometres, I though it was 16km, and is a popular spot for walking and cycling. There was some stuff to the north, but since that wouldn't have been much of a walk and I didn't want to retrace my steps. I headed south. I had ... read more