Left home at 6:30am, got home 9pm.
Suzhou is a city about 100km west of Shanghai; it used to be bigger than Shanghai, back before the colonial powers started taking an interest in China, being situated on the river, with major luxury industries in silk and pearls. Now, it's more of a tourist town - temples and gardens and suchlike.
But such pretty temples and gardens and suchlike!
This is the part of the trip where I really got into taking photos. But I'll keep the travelogue brief so as not to bore the pants off y'all.
( in which I take a lot of photos and climb ALL THE STEPS, and the stepbro gets married...again! )
But, yeah, that was Suzhou. Nice day trip; I'm glad it wasn't more than one day, because it was gruelling.
Suzhou is a city about 100km west of Shanghai; it used to be bigger than Shanghai, back before the colonial powers started taking an interest in China, being situated on the river, with major luxury industries in silk and pearls. Now, it's more of a tourist town - temples and gardens and suchlike.
But such pretty temples and gardens and suchlike!
This is the part of the trip where I really got into taking photos. But I'll keep the travelogue brief so as not to bore the pants off y'all.
( in which I take a lot of photos and climb ALL THE STEPS, and the stepbro gets married...again! )
But, yeah, that was Suzhou. Nice day trip; I'm glad it wasn't more than one day, because it was gruelling.
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