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Lilly Pilly
Lilly Pilly Fruit Lilly Pilly Fruit Cooking the Lilly Pilly In Australian gardens the Lilly Pilly is quite common in Australian gardens. It is a native rain forest tree but grows well in most parts of Australia - even in the cooler southern areas...
2 commentsHangzhou Silk Market Adventure
Wall in the street. Street in Hangzhou Silk Market Apartments above/behind the silk market. The Silk Market Shops More Silk Market shops Street scene in Silk Market Green trees hanging over the Silk Market street. Shops with piles of silk scarves....
6 commentsBiscuit Baking in Fenghua China
Our last stop on our two day visit to Ningbo and surrounding areas we visited Xi, which is the ancestral home of Chiang Kai-shek, a key figure in Chinese politics in the early part of last century. You can...
0 commentsAmazing Bamboo
What an amazing plant the bamboo is! It is essentially a grass that grows with a thick strong woody stem. Some of the strong bamboos are used as building materials. One can build a house of bamboo - with...
6 commentsWhy don't Chinese people pay attention to dental health?
One of the things that is glaringly obvious in China is the poor quality of dental health. Just look at any of the sea of faces anywhere in China and you are likely to see a mouth full of awful teeth. I can understand that over the years when the...
4 commentsClimbing Mount Xianglu
Washing chairs Lone house on the roadway The road to Xianglu See the temple at the top? The temple gates Inside the temple gate Bamboo grove See the temple at the top? Our destination. The "pond" in the...
3 commentsWhy do you write? For Money?
Why do we write? Foremost I write because I like to. However, I do have dreams of making big money for my efforts. A best seller? A block buster? Two projects I have worked on have had great interest -...
2 commentsDowntown
Shaoxing is an old city. If you could see a map of the city you will see the blue of the amazing canals that are dotted through this area. Great rivers and canals run through this city and its...
4 commentsDay-by-Day-in-China
Students having a festival in the rain. View from my "balcony" What is it like living in a "strange" country and trying to cope with so many different things on a day to day basis? I remember when I first came here in February 2008, how I tried to...
4 commentsTravelling in China - the Language Challenge
Travelling alone can have its challenges at the best of times, but travelling in a country where your grasp of the local language is minimal, is more than challenging. It was with a little trepidation that I...
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