Garden Hotel Suzhou

... the outer condition of their homes. In fact, the only time many of them are painted or repaired is when the building it first completed. After that, no attention is paid to it. However, the interior is often the rival of 5 star hotels, even out in the more rural areas. It&#8217;s just a different mindset.<br><br>The juxtaposition between the new construction and the rubble in the same city block is something to behold<br><br>A new ...

... street garbage collection hut. Just past the hut a group of children wait for the bus to pick them for school. They begin jumping and waving as we approach, shouting 'Hello', or &#8216;Good Morning'. We slow down as we try to get through the crowd gathered in front of the local Tim Hortons. It's not a real Tim Hortons, but a vendor who has baked a variety of breads, pastries, and cakes. She sells them from her ...

... br>I am not sure if I have always been a bit of a wimp at crossing the road. I grew up in a small village but did move to the big city when I was 12 and don&#8217;t remember being traumatised. Maybe the Tufty club did a good job or maybe it was just the sense of immortality that the young have. It was many years later that Julie pointed out that my desire to hold her hand as we crossed the road was more for my benefit than hers as she had ...

... All of the students are super polite and happy, and very very very respectful. We have no classroom management issues at all. It's pretty different teaching here. Every student greets you with a smile and hello when you pass them in the hall. They politely and happily say goodbye at the end of every class. It's pretty cool. It's like they all take happy pills everyday. Very very nice kids. <br><br>Lois, Beth and I ride our bikes to school everyday ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!! I'm dressing up *s * pir*te / cr*cked out gypsy loh*n, it's pretty legend*ry. Tonight were going to Pulp Fiction, who *re ridiculously nice *nd giving free beer to everyone who is dressed up. It should get f*irly rowdy. App*rently none of the chinese dress up so it's b*sic*lly drunk exp*ts flooding b*r street cre*ting *ll sorts of shen*n****ns. <br>H*ve *n *wesome h*lloween!!! <br>-B

... an hour, but couldn't take it any more. I took a shower and by the time I returned Steve was stirring. So I went to get some breakfast baozi while he got ready. The first order of business was getting Steve's return tickets to Beijing. That was an adventure. The CITS office was in a ****** little hotel and it was just a regular hotel room on the 3rd floor. We managed to find it and his tickets. Then we took a ...

... Expensive, but beautiful! <br>So, the past six hours. <br> <br>When I arrived at the bus station (north station near the train station) I found a really great set up. Usually I would begin the Cheap Hotel Boogie with the Tuk Tuk drivers etc but here there were several staff awaiting your arrival. They weren't pushy at all and asked my price range found hotels and photos of ...

... of me getting it to the UK (undamaged). The one thing that I have paid for in Shanghai was a trip up the TV tower - a huge tower in Shanghai with two large balls and a big spike (that resembles a space rocket!). I guess it would be equivalent to our Sky tower only somewhat more extravagant on the design front (take a look at the photo). The trip up was well worth the view, I found myself surprisingly mesmorised by the huge number of boats on the river - I was continually on the look ...