China 13 May 2018 Shanghai and Suzhou

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 of the trip there were high rise apartments almost as far as you could see, it then changed to low rise and farmland, market gardens. Continue reading

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Shanghai, 12th May 2018

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 hotel from their epic flight from the US via Hong Kong at around 2am, Continue reading

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Shanghai, former French Concession area Friday 11th May 2018

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.  I had cereal. Was all very nice.

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Adelaide to Shanghai via Sydney Thursday 10th May 2018

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 were out at the airport, checked in all the way to Shanghai, through security, of course I got bomb tested, again!,  and we were standing out in front of the Qantas Club waiting for it to open at 4:50am.
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China Tomorrow

Get ready everyone we arrive in China tomorrow 🙂

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Saturday 5th May 2018 Wedding Day, Wanneroo and Sunday 6th May

Woke up to a gorgeous autumn morning, great day for P & A wedding. Greg headed off to Scarborough to spend the morning with P and his mates, he enjoyed himself.
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May 4th 2018 Watermans Beach

Had a great day today, my birthday. Usually feels strange not being at home on my birthday, but not this year. Had fun with Greg and Karlien and enjoyed all of my birthday cards Greg brought with him and messages from home and overseas, oh yes and Haighs truffles before breakfast.

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Thursday 3rd May 2018 Adelaide to Watermans Beach WA

We caught the 2pm flight to Perth a 31/2hr flight. Karlien flew from Sydney, 5hr flight, her plane landing 10 minutes after ours. We met at the luggage carousel, then collected our car – a hybrid, that is a first for us, took about 40 minutes to get to our Airbnb at Watermans Bay (28 km) in peak hour traffic.
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15 th April 2018 Homeward Bound

We had set our alarms, yes both of us set one, for 5:50, with the aim of being checked out by 6:20 and checked-in by 6:45.
Mission accomplished, but we did get a slight headstart, Deb woke around 4’ish, so we were never going to be late! Continue reading

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Saturday 14th April 2018 Whitianga to Auckland

Our day started very slowly and easily. There was lots of rain and wind overnight and it was pouring in Whitianga all morning until around 11:30am.
Our hosts at Woodyhanger Lodge, Warren and Carol, cooked us up some bacon and eggs for our last breakfast. It was very nice and very welcomed. Continue reading

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