Riverside Hotel Guangzhou

.. morning we walked over to a park and played in streams and we walked along the park to get to a playground. The park was a beautiful Chinese Garden. The four elements of a Chinese a Garden are buildings, water, rocks and plants. Ryder and I always head to the waterfalls first. You can jump across the rocks. There is one path called 'no shoe stroll'. So we took our shoes off and walked over ...

... Our boys were about 5 years old when we visited. It was summer, a heatwave. Heat and humidity were overwhelming. China was still primitive, but construction was booming. I saw construction of skyscrapers using bamboo scaffolding and workers carrying concrete blocks on their shoulders to the top. I saw streets with parking lots for cars which would come some day. I even saw unconnected highway overpasses in the middle of cornfields, because now they had ...

... I like the office arrangement: spacious layout, many large potted plants. Roof terrace. Most doors are open. Wonderful to have a good climate. Rooms where 5 to 15 people are working, some individually, some in groups. Tables are all together, and in some rooms I see 3 or 4 people actively in discussion behind one screen or around one piece of software. They are in the IT business, about 100 people. Most people are fairly ...

Yesterday we went to chimelong paradise, a massive theme park in guangzhou. It was all Halloween themed and we had a great time. There was lots of water rides where you get totally soaked, you have to wear ponchos on them. Not like the ones in England where you hardy get wet. There was another ride where you sit like you're on a motorbike and it shoots you off really quick and then you go over loads of bumps! As it was Halloween there were lots of Halloween mazes with actors ...

We left Beijing with the best weather we have seen. We flew to Guangzhou and instead of a 9 hour wait at the airport, we met a new tour guide who took us into Guangzhou City. I was desperate to see a little of Guangzhou, partly to avoid 4 hours shopping. Guangzhou tower is actually the third tallest building in the world, however, we only sighted it in the ...