Wto Hotel Suzhou
No.99 Ren'ai Road, Industrial Park District Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
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Success! Bus ticket, museum, opera
... into a taxi driver come that morning.
From there I headed off to find the Suzhou Museum. It turned out to be a very modern, over the top new museum that combines modern museum features (security checks, audio accompaniment, tickets, very cold AC and shiny surfaces everywhere). The architecture combined traditional Chinese style with that specific to Suzhou. It houses a nice collection of relics from pagodas, temples, private houses, ...
Suzhou - Wasser oder Garten?
Eine bequeme Zugstunde westlich von Shanghai entfernt liegt die „Wasserstadt" Suzhou. Sie blickt im Gegensatz zu Shanghai auf eine lange, fast 2.500 Jahre dauernde Geschichte zurück. Einst wurde Suzhou von Marco Polo als Venedig des Ostens genannt. Marco Polo muss wohl angetan gewesen sein von den einstigen Wasserkanälen, welche die Stadt durchzogen. Ihm war aber auch der Blick in die Zukunft untersagt, sonst ...
Meandering around Suzhou.
... it’s classed in China as a ‘Garden City’. There were plenty to choose from and plenty of locations to investigate but we plumped for ‘Garden of the Master of the Nets’ [30rmb/£3]. Mainly due to its location, it’s size [it’s one of the smaller gardens in Suzhou but still had plenty to entertain you for a couple of hours] and its promise of being the best preserved garden in Suzhou. After originally ...
Settling In
... our order wearing her thick down jacket. As we ordered sweet and sour pork, deep-fried green beans, eggplant, and rice we could see our breath fogging the chill air. A hot meal under these circumstances is doubly good as it fills your stomach and warms you. We still ride our bikes in the cold and Kate has been taking her cold weather biking fashion cues from the locals. You can see the results in the photo of her with her bike. Notice the fur lined kneepads.
Life has taken ...
Sweet Buns, Lotus Paste & Unidentifiable Foods
... mango mousse – natural coloring). I brought a mold home with me and we are going to launch it...mango is just the beginning.
From work, I met back up with Nate and headed to our first traditional Cantonese restaurant with people from Unifrax. The food was amazing, but most of it was not explained to us and was clearly unidentifiable. We ate and ate and ate…then drank corn milk and TsingTao beer. Yum J More pictures to ...



