Suzhou Regalia Serviced Residences

... br><br>So far, our trip in the south has far exceeded our expectations in everything but the food. The lunch and dinner were both less appetizing than the food in Beijing. Perhaps it&#8217;s because it was the fourth day in a row with just Chinese food. XO, the downtown GR Chinese restaurant will be off the rotation for a while when we get home!<br><br>A couple of random Suzhou notes:<br><br><br> Chinese people don&#8217;t generally care ...

Our school day begins early at 7:30am. It takes us about 15 minutes to ride to school. The last kilometer of our morning bike commute takes us down a wonderful neighborhood street we have come to know as Sesame Street. Each morning and afternoon, as we ride to and from school, we watch in wonder as the people of the neighborhood go about their everyday lives on the street. Sesame Street is a narrow 2-lane street. On ...

... br><br>Another day takes us to Panmen, a beautiful old scenic area by the Grand Canal which has the only land and water gate in China, once controlling access to the city by either route. I climb up inside the pagoda and tick another box. <br><br>Are we getting better at dodging the bikes? Not sure but we have time to practise before we hit Vietnam where crossing the road, from what I have read, is an even worse experience.<br><br>Shirley &amp; John

... 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

... for! how funny..so now I have Beyonce's 'to the left..to the left' song stuck in my head! We all went out for dinner at a very stupendous Italian restaurant for my birthday..and everybody was soo sweet..they had all clubbed together and brought me a little purse for my birthday! We really did have the best group to travel with..it was like being with friends by day 3 of the trip! On the way back from the restaurant..the tour guide met us as we were a ...

Hangzhou or the city best known for its west lake (one of 36 in China) is a large city with an equally large park built around its lake. Here we hired some bicycles with great suspensions, something like being on a see-saw, if they make these in a tandem cycling would be real fun. Around the lake you stumble across various gardens which are free entry but we had to lock the bicycles outside since the guards are ...

... canal and zig zagged my way around for awhile and soon came across the Twin Pagodas. Though the grounds are small they really are so simple and beautiful. There is a small tea house and surrounding the gardens are many rock carvings and engravings. I sat watching an elderly man doing Tai Chi and walked around the two pagodas staring up at them as they ...

... this was a very survey-like formulation of the Top 5). So, anyway, the topic is "Top 5 films that could have been (or perhaps should be) set in Suzhou: 5. The Talented Mr Ripley 4. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Officially the world's worst movie ever) 3. National Lampoon's Chinese Vacation 2. Any upcoming film starring Zhang Ziyi - I would be the leading man 1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Now I'm off to the second limb of paradise on earth - Hangzhou...

... Les Chinois sont tres fiers de ces nouvelles villes, qui tronent tels des oppidums modernes en attendant de devenir des presqu'iles. L'arret suivant est consacre a la visite d'une pagode sur 8 etages, dont la structure de bois a ete adossee a la falaise. Il n'y a plus grand chose a voir a l'interieur. La presqu'ile devrait devenir une ile avec le remplissage du barrage, et seul le haut de la pagode devrait encore depasser de l'eau. Le dernier arret pour la soiree mene vers un temple ...