Book Club Goes on Tour!

This month, our book club read an Inspector Chen detective novel called Don't Cry, Tai Lake. Set in Wuxi, just 90 minutes from Shanghai, the novel was entertaining and we decided we needed to visit the city and lake to check out sites from the book. And what a fun weekend! We toured around the city (the ancient Grand Canal built about 1500 years ago flows through Wuxi and the downtown area is a fun and colourful water town), went on a boat cruise out to Fairy Island, ate local food, stayed in a great hotel, visited nearby Yixing (known for its special clay tea pots) and China's largest bamboo forest. Plus we laughed a lot and had a great time. Brian enjoyed his weekend with the book club ladies!