Tianzifang We weren’t hungry enough to think of breakfast and headed out to Tianzifang by metro.  This is a pretty and touristy area located in the French concession, that is home to boutiques, cafes and watering holes. The area seems to have expanded a little since our last visit.  The products on sale are now […]

Moving to Shanghai Today we move to Shanghai.  Up at 0630 again, I once again did my shoulder rehab exercises before having a simple breakfast of egg dumplings filled pork in a soup. Our hotel gifted us a generous selection of local biscuits as we checked out at 1000.  We ordered a car to take […]

Nanzha Old Street We woke at 0630 and lazed around for a bit before I did my rehab exercises for my shoulder impingement. We decided to go out for a wander to see what could tempt us for breakfast.  Nearby, we found a place that did Chinese style wraps filled with a crispy cracker, lettuce […]

Arriving in Shanghai It was a great flight, with about 6h30 in the horizontal position for me across three seats.  That was most of the time between the two good meals that were served.  I slept for about 3h30 and lay or dozed for the remainder. We landed in Shanghai at 0615, about 30 mins […]

Temple Dennis, Swee and Chen came to our accommodation for breakfast at 0700 and we set off at 0830 to the temple the pretty village near the entrance to the Nanjing Scenic Area. Text continues after this gallery.     My tentative plan for the remainder of the day was to call into another tulou […]

Dennis bought us breakfast at 0700 and left to borrow the car and bring it back.  We got going at 0930, picking Swee and Chen before leaving town heading towards Daoyun Lao in the Raoping area. Dayun Lao We arrived at Daoyun Lao around 1040.  This huge octagonal 1587 tulou was once home to 600 […]

Breakfast I’m nearly on local time after three nights and we didn’t head out for breakfast till after 0830.  With some items not ready yet, I happily chose a pork and century egg congee. Teochew congee is meant to be like rice in hot water and that’s the origin of the Thai rice soup.  Today’s […]

Swatow’s old centre Dennis left around 0530 today to catch the train to Guangzhou for some errands. Kim and I, Swee and Chen had booked to go to Swatow (Shantou) for an overnight stay to explore a different part of the region. At around 0900 Kim and I walked to the Vienna hotel where Swee […]