Category: China

Guest Post: Falling in Love with Chinese Tea – Nanjing, China

To help network great travel & family blogs we are encouraging fellow writers to share featured guest posts with us. This week’s featured guest post is from the website Yatripandit.com. If you would like to feature as a guest writer, please contact us. Two brothers from another mothers, bound together by wanderlust & an intense

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Five Things to do in Beijing with Children

Beijing, China’s bustling capital city and home to some of the most impressive historic sites in the world. From the sheer scale of Tiananmen Square to the majestic sprawl of the nearby Great Wall, no trip to China would be complete without a visit to the country’s seat of power. Not as cosmopolitan as Shanghai or

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Tiananmen Square with Children

Visiting Tiananmen Square should rank highly on anybodies list when travelling in China. Named after the Tiananmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) which separates it from the Forbidden City at it’s northern end, the square is enormous, having been expanded to four times it’s original size under Mao Zedong’s leadership in the 1950s. Mao’s vision was

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Corner’s Deli

We ventured out to Corner’s Deli by Citic Plaza this weekend. We’d been hearing about this Aladdin’s cave of imported wonders for weeks and decided it had to be worth a visit. Close to Linhexi metro station and easily accessible by taxi, Corner’s Deli at ‘Back Street’ Citic Plaza is one of numerous branches throughout

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Grocery Shopping GZ

Just after we arrived in Guangzhou, my employer arranged a grocery shopping trip for new staff to Aeon. This took place on a Tuesday afternoon around 5 o’clock and was definitely one of the most eye-opening experiences I have had since moving to China. It was like Black Friday, but unceasingly and without anything actually

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