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Day 64 – West Lake and Leifeng Pagoda in Hangzhou

Day 64 – West Lake and Leifeng Pagoda in Hangzhou

By on Nov 5, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 2 comments

We found out Saturday evening that Kaelyn had Sunday off as well (she had Saturday off too). Time for a road trip! Hangzhou was the city was originally told she would be working in, with Kaatje in Shanghai. They are about 175km apart, and by train from 1-hr to 1.5hrs away. The idea we assumed was that I would travel between the two cities during the week, but...

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Day 62 – Using an ATM in Shanghai

Day 62 – Using an ATM in Shanghai

By on Nov 3, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 0 comments

Another HOW TO, pretty straight forward @ HSBC. I used another bank earlier on that didn’t have the LANGUAGE option, so I used google translate on my phone to figure out the words with the live preview feature. It’s just easier here. And it’s only a $5CAD charge for each withdrawl.

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Day 61 – Jing’an Temple

Day 61 – Jing’an Temple

By on Nov 2, 2017 in Shanghai, China (2017) | 0 comments

Kaelyn was done today around 3PM so we headed over to Jing’an Temple, a Buddhist temple. It was a short subway ride, Line 9 2 stops to Line 7, 2 stops. It was a little surprising to see the cost when we arrived. 50RMB ($9.67CAD) each. At first we walked away, a little hard to understand being a temple. The one in Suzhou was free. I then realized given the...

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