Category Archives: 2018 05 China

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 :1275

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 →

Woke a bit early, about 4.30am (it was 6am at home). We were down at breakfast at 7am, there was so much variety. Greg had a Chinese breakfast. Congee, dumplings, noodles, fried rice, veggie steamed roll and a baked bun. … Continue reading →

Deb slept well last night, me not so much. I detest alarm clocks, I just dont trust them.  We were up at 4am showered, finished packing and were in an Uber by 4.25am.  It took a bit over 15mins. We … Continue reading →

Get ready everyone we arrive in China tomorrow 🙂 Number of Views :1195