FERRY TO JAPAN

SHANGHAI TO OSAKA FERRY ROUTE
I quite fancy this idea could be fun and the restaurant food looks pretty tasty

MY NEW LOCAL FOOTBALL TEAM

I must admit that I am not a great fan of watching football. I do however like playing 5 aside.It would be great to get a women's 5 aside team up and running in Wuhan...

China travel advice

China travel advice

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Shanghai News

http://www.china.org.cn/

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WUHAN MAPS

Wuhan Map - Wuhan Hubei ? mappery

OLD MAPS OF WUHAN

This map and more vintage maps of China  form part of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection housed at the University of Texas.       Its great coz they are high resolution scans and you can zoom in and       out of them without the image quality going too downhill.

LOCAL CONTACTS PART 2

MR MAI'S COFFEE SHOP

I spoke to these guys on Skype and am going to call in when I get into Wuhan as they are based in Wuchang. Feel free to add some more local Wuchang contacts below in the comments section.
I'll let you know how it went..

MAKE A PICTURE BADGE ON FLICKER

 I've yet to really get going on Flicker but when I do this may well be one of the things I do. If you click on this link you can do it too Flickr: Make a badge

MOON CAKE

                        On Friday I got an incredible urge to make a cake and post it to my family. The last cake I posted was to my grandfather. When he received the parcel he phoned me up absolutely delighted, "Was that you ? " he said. I'd made a ginger cake; one of his favourites , with large chunks of raw ginger embedded in the mix for that extra bite. I also popped in a few teabags for good measure to help wash it down. We are not accustomed to dishing out stingy pieces of cake in my family... I always remember my mum making fantastic fruit cakes with lots of sultanas. We used to take them on walks with us and also when we were camping. In my childhood we regularly used to go away on trips with 2 large Alsatians in a VW camper van.I remember sitting eating cake inside the van when it was raining outside after a long walk. The dogs liked cake too when they could get it. 


The secret to a good cake according to her is lots of eggs and butter. Well it clearly worked there were never many left overs. I also believe that  good cake contains a lot of love for the people you have made it for which hers clearly did.This time however I made a monster of a cake and left it out to cool by the light of the moon before icing it with lime and cream cheese icing and filling it with lemon curd. I went on a herb walk organised by a friend and we ate some of the cake afterwards. There are still however enough sizeable chunks left to post.....

Autumn Moon Festival

LOCAL CONTACTS PART 1

 This Language school offers Mandarin classes at all levels right up to University level. I intend to check them out and hopefully start understanding some Chinese pretty sharpish  Wuhan Rainbow Reading Training Center