Shanghai Harbour

After a morning spent in Tongli

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located between Suzhou and Shanghai seeing the restored water town with its boats, canals, fishing birds

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as well as the historic Governor’s House with its Formal Rooms and Gardens with fish

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We headed to Shanghai.

I will not bore you with more pictures of tables full of Chinese Food. It is safe to assume that we were served food. Still too westernized for my sake, but fine for just about anyone but my teens who are voting for a “donner.”

Noah took the evening harbour tour with us. The city lights up most of its downtown (well, along the waterfront plus just about everywhere else) buildings at night. Best seen from the water, it is a rather amazing sight. Waterfront to War Memorial

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On the way back to the hotel – we stopped quickly at the pedestrian zone. Not just a few lights or people at close to 2200.

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And at one of the main Museums.

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Arches

With the Hilton providing the evening arch lit as bright as day while in contrast there was an old pedestrian bridge in Tongli.

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-Holly

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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