Back From China

Couldn't get on Facebook and blog in the past week when I was still in China

Guess the VPN didn't work properly there

Oh well, doesn't matter.. 

I am happy I am back

though I didn't have internet access to share some amazing photos at the time

I still have saved them until now to reveal to you

The Great Wall

Morning winter wonderland in TianJin

Nightlife in TJ

Farewell and take care you monsters

hope to see you again soon!

TianJin 古文化街

I am always fascinated by Chinese culture

Even though I am quite familiar to it..

I also get inspired by their old houses, colours and the food sometimes

So I am trying to make the most of it when I am in China this time

I had a stroll at the so-called "Tianjin Ancient Culture Street" today

To me it was too modern to be called "Ancient"

but yet it still preserved (or maybe recreated) some quite authentic ambience there

This "Eye of TianJin" is not far from the Ancient Culture street 

Very small, nothing like London eye

but hey, on TripAdvisor, it is one of their must-sees ;-)

Some souvenirs for myself :-)

Beijing

I went to Beijing today  

Apart from the fact that they did frisk search and x-rayed my bag at every single place I went, 

in every underground station, at the touristic places, etc, 

Beijing is a rather nice city to visit.

Tian An Men

Got the Forbidden City panorama-ed

I didn't do much in Beijing actually

I needed to meet a friend in the afternoon for dinner.

I think I will have to go again for the Summer Palace and 798 Art Zone

And maybe the Great Wall.. ;-P

I will also have to spend another day in TianJin next week

as I was so stunned by the night view by the river last night when I came back. 

Gorgeous, no?

Cullera Castle

Melanie joined us in Valencia last week on Wednesday 

we went to the city centre for Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias 
(the city of Arts and Sciences)

we also went to Cullera Castle afterwards that me and J had never been in before

apparently they re-opened last year as they were doing some maintenance works for quite a few years

please enjoy the photos below

Spain Bound

Off to Spain in 2 hours

See you later! 

Leith Tower

Me and J escaped the rat race last weekend to Leith Tower near Dorking

another listed building which I liked very much

We spent 2 hours WALKING around in the woodland in order to complete one of the routes on the map

I guessed that the amount of the exercise that we did that day could've been done in a year for both of us. 

we were both exhausted 

and wouldn't go back in short period of time

LOL