With both Shapiros in tow, I am off to Shanghai to explore the world's largest city (!!). I actually just googled that― I knew that Shanghai was the largest city in China, but I had no idea just how big that would be. Nearly 25 million, as it turns out, which is actually larger than the population of the entire Australian continent. All the details: Shanghai Getting there: Take the world's fastest[...]
My Chinese friend once told me (2 days ago) that I could never be a great man until I visited the Great Wall of China. I’ll probably never be a great man, for obvious anatomical reasons, but apparently this wasn’t a personal insult to my manhood—there’s a famous Chairman Mao quote: “He who has not been to the Great Wall is not a true man”. And so we set out to become true men.[...]
After a crazy Friday night out (you know it’s a good night when you lose your dress), and the subsequent full day of recovery, we are finally able to get out of bed and do some exploring around Hangzhou. All the details: Hangzhou Getting there: Fly into Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, and then take a taxi to your accommodation from the rank out front. There are a number of buses also[...]
So excited to have left rainy, cold Sydney behind for some summer days in Hangzhou. If you have no idea where that is, don’t feel too bad about yourself, I had to google it many times. And I nearly booked flights to the wrong airport, but I'm sure that wouldn't be the first time it happened. It was about 12 hours flying to Beijing and then another 2 to Hangzhou, which isn’t horribly long,[...]