MIXC Centre, Mexican..

A few weeks we took a trip south east to the new HangZhou city centre to go ice skating at the new MIXC Centre.  It was only opened in early May this year and as a result many stores are still in the process of moving in.  The ice skating rink on the other hand, […]

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Shopping in HangZhou

One of the massive benefits of living in China is that you can purchase some things at remarkable prices, and in some cases you don’t have to brave the local markets or speak Mandarin to get a good price either.  We’re quite fond of the French store ‘Decathlon’ in North HangZhou.  Today was our second […]

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Venturing to Metro

About two months ago we visited the massive new Metro store on north (north!) Moganshan rd – about 8 or so kilometres from where we live.  If you’ve ever been to a Costco then you probably can imagine the size and volume of stuff they sell at these warehouse type places.  It’s a massive place, […]

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