Holiday Inn Youlian Suzhou

... side of the street are homes, shops, eating establishments, hair salons, a scooter mechanic shop, a small hotel, and many street vendors. It seems like the entire neighborhood is out on the street every morning getting ready for the day. As we turn onto the street we often see a little old lady hunched over as she works on her small garden plot beside the road. A few more meters and we pick up the pace as we pass the ...

... any Italian city.<br><br>Suzhou is also celebrated for its gardens. These date back centuries and are works of art. We visit the Joyous Garden..The designer seems to have been to the same garden school as John and me. There is lots of stone and limited, easily maintained plant areas! Admittedly the rock displays are rather grander than our sandstone boulders and the water features are far more extensive than the one John is planning ...

Our school is actually made up of two schools - the Chinese Public School, and the BC International School. Both schools share the same campus and facilities. When I look out my classroom window I look over at the Chinese students in the next building working hard at their studies. The Chinese Public School is made up of about 1700 students, grades 7 - 12. Our BC school is made up of about 220 students from grades 10 - 12. We have 5 non-Asian students in ...

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

... Disney&#8217;s classic fairy tales such as &#8220;Cinderella,&#8221; &#8220;Beauty and the<br>Beast&#8221; and so on. Fairy Tale wedding gownsprice<br>at the range of 1500-3000 U.S. dollars, which is a little ...

... reading Nicholas Taleb - my life is not the same :) Mix it with "The Long Tail" and "The Extreme Future", add a bit of Paolo Coelho and Malcom Gladwell - and you get a mix of unconnectedness :) China is China ... I can write about the overseas Chinese, about the Pakistani+China vs India relations, about Taiwan and the american fighter jets I saw and my professor said that: "there are no relations between Taiwanese and Americans (RIGHT!)" about the FDI from ...

In an attempt to get away from the noise, commotion and chaos that is China, Jessica Maria and I wandered into a small coffee shop. As we climbed the stairs to this small business we could hear Jack Johnson softly playing overhead. Coffee shops are geared towards Westerners in China, both because people mainly drink tea and because the prices are so high for coffee that most of the locals cannot afford the prices. This one in particular had large comfy couches (a great change ...

... is to simply GO! <br> <br>Today I headed out of the walls and ventured North West. After coffee I caught Bus No: 1 on Jingde Lu which took me all the way to Huqin Shan. After finding out that it too has a 'Peak Period Entrance Fee' I decided they could shove the three thousand swords that He Lu was buried with right up their peak period butts! <br ...

... Chengdu avant de voir Lete. Je crois que je vous avais laisses en rade autour de Qingcheng San. Apres l'ascension de ce petit 1600m, je suis parti a l'attaque d'Emei Shan. 3100m, deux pics a 1500 suivis de redescentes, un pic a 1700, un autre a 2000, puis l'ascension jusqu'en haut. Au total 52km tout en escaliers (c'est pas Tao qu'a invente l'escalator non plus) avec de la foret, des gorges, des macaques, des ruisseaux, des temples... pour egayer le parcours. Tot leve, j'ai attaque l ...