Tonight we had our first dusting of snow.  Above are pictures from the balcony, some 24 floors above the ground – it’s starting to get quite interesting, as you can see. Tomorrow is going to be (forecast) as the coldest day this week; the weather is destined to improve and be sunny by Thursday, […]

Well it is Monday and as we have become accustomed to it being, well, cold.  However, today it is actually snowing.  It’s not quite piling up, but it is certainly falling from the sky.  Toni, Matt and Chen have gone out to do various tasks while I am holding down the fort (not that I […]

We arrived in HangZhou on Thursday after spending the day in Shanghai with Will (one of two people who we know in Shanghai) and having some fun with the train ticketing system – a blog entry for another day.. It has been extremely cold since we arrived.  Literally temperatures under 4’C and with lows into […]