This is a shorter post from our two-night stay in Shanghai. JJ's Uncle (father of Susan, if you read the previous blog post from Hangzhou) was also at the family gathering and was nice enough to offer us a ride back to Shanghai and a bed in the apartment of his family.

Since we didn't have much ti...

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I was more than exited about visiting JJ's home town Hangzhou after hearing so many good things about it. It is often referred to as Shanghai's backyard thanks to its location less than 180 kilometers southwest of the country's largest city. Marco Polo once called it the "finest and most splendid ci...

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