Xihui Park Wuxi

Chinese people were smiling [on the streets] last week and it was kinda nice.

The weather has warmed up a bit, the sun was shining (we don't actually get to SEE the sun very often) and Chinese people were actually publicly, openly happy.

Here's what we've got for you this week. A few observations/facts that we have tried and …

Hello, hello, hello. Warning: this blog might be a little lengthy. We've split it into 2 parts. We'll send Part 2 in several days.

It just dawned on us that we are only here for about 10 more weeks and there are things we haven't shared with you yet. Shame on us. We imagine we will only blog 4 more times or so during the remainder of our …

Wuxi is about an hours drive from SuZhou and that was our first stop of the day.  In Wuxi we visited Xihui Park and the Plum garden.  Both are beautiful places to visit and again our guide had many stories about the history to tell.  After ...

... television (every show is filmed like a soap opera, regardless of the content), we headed out and took a bus to Xihui park, which is a prime attraction of Wuxi.  Xihui is a park within the city that is basically two hills with some towers on them, ...