Taizhou Garden Comfort Villa

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BAD NEWS!

A travel blog entry by rnf2

So far everything has been going swimmingly, the right stamps issued by the right departments, just one more to get, and Ted rang to say he wants to meet at Gregs apartment...

The last government department said NO to Teds application to sponsor a Z visa and residence permit application. No explanation, I meet or exceed their requirements, no reasons listed for the declined application... Just No.

So I am on a job hunt again!
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Arrival at last.

A travel blog entry by rnf2

The landing was a little off, there was a rainstorm flooding the runway as we landed and the plane swayed from side to side as it braked down the runway, I presume the plane was hydroplaning or the puddles were slowing one side more than the other or something, but a very rough and wobbly landing once touched down.

So after that it was out of the baggage ...

National Week in Wenzhou

A travel blog entry by istres

... enough I probably would have been willing to pay restaurant prices for it!

Once we get settled in the first day we spent walking around to get familiar with our surroundings. We found an Olympic stadium where some of the games in 2008 would have been held. There were a number of small shops and food stops all around. So it didn't take long to find the places we needed to find!

We were ...

Shanghai!

A travel blog entry by alxs

... garden and home. It was in the midst of a fun shopping area with not one but two Starbucks. Definitely a tourist haven! We had fun bargaining. We then went to a silk shop and saw how they created the silk threads.

We went on to walk through a local residential area that remained traditional, where I saw my first cat of the trip. This kitty was ...

An elevator to the top of the mountain?

A travel blog entry by xiao_mao

... for so long. We kept trying to make it there, but for some reason never got there when the weather was still good. Luckily, though, the day we went had pretty great weather for the end of January.
I'll let the pictures tell the story here, as I don't have much else to ...