Winding down in Shanghai: 01 August 2006 (Tuesday)

I have only two days left in this amazing journey. Reading this entry you might get the idea that I’ve been lounging around my friends Chris and Lisa’s apartment awaiting my departure. In reality it has just happened to be a relatively…

Around the world in 58 days: 04 August 2006 (Friday)

Time for tea: 03 August 2006 (Thursday)

My grand plan for Thursday was to have a vegetarian brunch with Lisa and then go spend the…

“It would be a pity if…”: 02 August 2006 (Wednesday)

The billboard at the Suzhou train station loudly proclaimed the following words of a poet from the Song Dynasty: “It would be a pity if one were to visit Suzhou and not see Tiger Hill”. Chris, Lisa and I had decided to go out of town on…