Author Archives: Greg

We had another very slow start to the day, managed to get down to breakfast some time after 9. We missed all the early leaving US part of our tour group. Luckily we had said good bye to most yesterday. … Continue reading →

We were already awake for our 6:30am wake-up call. Bags out by 7:30, on the bus to the airport at 8am. Breakfast was in there somewhere. An easy drive mostly in the opposite direction to Beijing’s peak hour traffic got … Continue reading →

For those who have been following our China trip, Deb has asked me to do a “and they lived happily ever after.” blog today, rather than the full on “Once upon a time” version. We are both very tired and … Continue reading →

Happy birthday Eileen/Mum, we hope you have a fantastic day. We are now nearly 1300km from Shanghai and about 300km (as the crow flies) from where we started our cruise. Number of Views :1347

We woke in time this morning to go to the Tai Chi session on the top deck. It was an interesting half hour, mostly attended by westerners. I was surprised how flexible I was/wasn’t!  Some movements were much easier to … Continue reading →

  The start of the first full day on board the Century Sun. Thankfully we didn’t wake much before 7am, it was a restless nights sleep but at least we slept in a little. We opened our curtains just in … Continue reading →

We had a VERY lazy start to our day, woke around 7am, breakfast about 9am, packed with our check-in bag out for collection at 10am, and finally checked out of the hotel at 11am and onto the bus for a … Continue reading →

Happy Mother’s Day to our mums, hope you enjoyed your day. xoxox Road trip day, after a 6:30am wakeup call and breakfast we were on our bus to start our 2+hr trip to Suzhou at 8am. For the first 30mins … Continue reading →

Our tour started properly today, after a bit of confusion around the meeting time, was it 8am or 9:30, no-one knows. Turns out it wasn’t  8am, so we went to breakfast instead. John, Georgie, John and Yvette arrived at our … Continue reading →

Get ready everyone we arrive in China tomorrow 🙂 Number of Views :1274