It was roughly Oct 2000. I went to visit KT while he was working in Wenzhou. Joshua was left in my mom's care. What a nice break it was from the routine babysitting days!Most of the time, I sat in the hotel room where KT stayed and worked. Wenzhou doesn't have much to offer in sightseeing. Furthermore, it was rather difficult for me to blend in to to the Chinese way of life. The way they smoke even in the lifts, the way they jumped queue.... I prefer to stay in the hotel room with my book I prepared before the journey.
We went to Wuxi and Suzhou for the weekend though. KT took Friday off, and we went by train to Wuxi on Thurs night first. It was a ticket with a bed, where the journey from Wenzhou takes one whole night. When we reached the town, we found a tour bus which only costs RMB20 for a whole day's ride, I think. But once we hopped into the bus, they asked you for about RMB200 per person for the entrance fees.
The gardens were neat and pretty, just like what we see in the pictures and movies. That was the impression on the first garden you were taken to.. After a few of them, you would realised most of them are more or less looks the same.
We stayed for one night, and early next morning went to Suzhou. Hopped into a tour bus, we were subjected to the "additional entrance fees" on the bus again. No point arguing with them, it's their culture.
Suzhou was slightly different. It looks somehow tasteful and authentic with the canals and water boats
running around in that city. Perhaps it's Venice of the East. Shopping was a lot more fun to as it offers more variety. Spent one nite there and took a domestic flight back to Wenzhou. By the time we got back, our feet were numbed from walking and muscles all over the body aching. It was surely an exhaustive short trip to cover 2 towns in a short time.
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