Hangzhou – Photo Retrospective

A special New Year’s post just for you (and the rest of the Internet!) – some select photos from Toni’s exploration of Hangzhou.  Full credit to Toni for her mastery with her splendid Olympus camera.  Here are three highlights. A view of the lake                                                       Around the lake precinct                                             Great view of the mountains across the […]

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Leaving Shanghai

We’re currently at Pudong International airport waiting for our flight to open.  We took the train from Hangzhou and then caught a cab from Shanghainan station to Pudong Airport – about 30+kms away.  For the record it cost us just 146 Yuan or about AU $24! If we had even a basic knowledge of Mandarin, […]

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Thoughts from Hangzhou

G’day from Hangzhou – and wishing you also a very happy new year.  We kicked off the year 2010 in style even though Chinese new year doesn’t start until February.  Our early 2010 celebrations started by winning a round of drinks at a trivia comp, followed by a romp in a multicultural nightclub and then […]

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