Dinner time again

Another day but no rain!

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August 26th 2008
Hello again from sunny Shanghai .... yes the rain has gone! Apparently we had the most rain in a single day that they have had for 100 years yesterday, and we survived to tell the tale. Well so did the other 25 million inhabitants of Shanghai but let's not let that lessen our achievement. Today was a bit of a washout in terms of bloggable stuff though, I guess that's the result of us settling d ... 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