Zhenjiang Guoji Hotel

We had just enough time to purchase an indulgent round of sandwiches from James' favourite local deli before heading to the train station to catch the train to Jessica's home town, Danyang (halfway between Shanghai and Nanjing).
Jessica and her mother collected us and our enormous bags, and we were chauffeured for an hour and a half in air co...

As an old Chinese poem states, spring is the best season to visit Yangzhou, an ancient city. I have read so much about it that finally I decided to pay a visit by myself last spring. Yangzhou once had its glorious days in Han and Tang dynasty but went downhill in Qing dynasty. It boasts about its long history,elegant gardens and all kinds of han...

I spent Christmas in Yangzhou, a pretty little place near Nanjing. We very nearly ended up staying in a dodgy brothel/bed and breakfast having discovered I'd forgotten to bring my passport. Luckily, my friend had hers and we had a wonderful few days in a place with carpets :) Yangzhou doesn't get a very good write-up in the guidebooks but we tho...

Took us quite a bit to actually get this started, but taking advantage of the facilities in this school (meaning the free internet while we are waiting for Manny and Jacky to play pingpong) we have managed to get this roling: zzze infamous Blooog! As some of you already know, we are on the 3rd stop on our 5 month trip. Hongkong was our fairly we...

J'ai cette semaine continuer la visite des alentours de Shanghai, sur la carte on voit à peine le périple mais si vous regardez bien cela fait quand même une amplitude de 700 km du nord au sud. Tout ça pour vous dire qu'une tete d'épingle sur la carte de Chine représente de grandes distances en réalité. Jen'ai eu depuis mon arrivée le 19 mars qu...

Hello Everybody, I think I should first start this blog off by mentioning my map pin locations. I don't think any of them are right. So don't go basing any geography projects on my map. I've mentioned before, the computer that I was using in Inner Mongolia was a piece of ****, and sometimes I would just be happy to be able to log on..so putting ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya, The plan was to meet Chung Ru and Xie Xiao Lin at one so I decided to zig zag my way slowly towards Jinshan Gongyuan where we were to meet. We all arrived pretty much at the same time and I paid my 50 Yuan entry fee. The girls had a 'Local Peoples' entry card that allowed them free entry into all sites in Zhenjiang....

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya, As usual I woke with the feeling that it was time to move on yet I had no idea where I wanted to go. After a chat with Luo Wei I decided to head to a smaller city called Zhenjiang City which was only an hour or so away from where I was. With nearly three million people, it's a little bigger then Melbourne but what ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya, Mate, what a horrible night's sleep I had last night. The guys in the room across from me were yelling and screaming for most of the night whilst playing cards. Well at least I think that's what they were playing. Maybe they were playing other games. Who knows! Anyhow, what ever they were doing they bloody well kep...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya, I awoke with and remembered that I had forgotten to think of where to go next when I made my decision to leave Nanjing last night. This adventure has been a real 'wake up and decide' adventure. After chatting to Amigo and I decided to head to Hangzhou which is further south in Zhejiang Province. Amigo told me that ...