Thursday, August 29, 2024 Fairfield, Connecticut Another Doctor’s Appointment, Lunch at Shanghai Gourmet, Drinks in Brett’s Sunroom and Thai Dinner with Fairfield’s Indian Friends Today was another day that was fairly unexciting although we did end it by meeting some of our closest friends in Fairfield. It’s funny how, as the years go by, you…
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Exploring Dubai and Doing the Tourist Thing: Dubai Museum, Dubai Mall, Fountains, Ride up Burj-al-Khalifa, Dinner at New Shanghai Restaurant
Sunday, November 28, 2021: Exploring Dubai and Doing the Tourist Thing: Dubai Museum, Dubai Mall, Fountains, Ride up Burj-al-Khalifa, Dinner at New Shanghai Restaurant Salaam Aleikum from Dubai! We took it easy this morning. After all, we were on holiday! Arising at leisure in the Ayub household, we took showers, dressed for a day…
Journey from Shanghai to Seoul and Settling Into our Hotel
Thursday, August 23, 2018 Shanghai, China—Seoul, South Korea A Long Journey from Shanghai and Settling into our Hotel in Seoul It was a very early start to the day. Our alarms went off at 5.30 am and at 6.00 am, we were in the lobby of our hotel where we had arranged for a cabbie…
Last Day of Shanghai Conference, Shopping in Underground Mall and Indian Dinner Near the French Concession
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Last Day of Conference at NYU-Shanghai, Shopping in Underground Mall and Indian Dinner near the French Concession: Another comfortable night was followed by another humongous brekkie in the company of other delegates with whom I had made friends. Then, the short walk to the campus of NYU, a morning’s session of…
Visiting Shanghai Museum, Meeting A Colleague, Giving Conference Talk and Banquet Dinner
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 NYU-Shanghai Visiting Shanghai Museum, Seeing my NYU-Shanghai Colleague, Presenting my Paper at Conference and Another Chinese Banquet We awoke after a great night’s sleep—we could really get used to this luxury: an enormous King sized bed, wonderfully fluffy mattress and gigantic pillows. Plus a spacious marble bathroom and top-of-the-line toiletries. Like…
Conference at NYU-Shanghai: Off to a Succesfful Startt
Monday, August 20, 2018 NYU-Shanghai Today was the start of the conference at NYU-Shanghai. We woke up in an enormous King size bed in the upscale Hongta Hotel—the last word in comfort. I was entitled to a huge breakfast buffet in the hotel lobby where I ate like an ox. I chose a full English…
Heavenly Hangzou: Lingering by the Banks of West Lake
Sunday, August 19, 2018 Hangzou, China Lingering Besides the Vast West Lake Today we decided to wake up and breakfast a bit earlier as we had a 9.38 am train from Shanghai Railway Station to Hangzou—Haang-jo. This place is a two-hour journey from Shanghai and is known for what is called the West Lake. We…
Suzhou; China’s Spectacular City of Gardens and Canals
Saturday, August 18, 2018 Shanghai-Suzhou We awoke today feeling remarkably rested after a night in a very comfy bed. Since we loved the hotel so much, we savored our time in it and lingered in bed with TV that had English channels (CNN and CGTV) that offered us global news. Included in our room tariff…
Goodbye Luoyang, Hello Shanghai: Journeys End—Almost…
Friday, August 17, 2018 Luoyang-Shanghai We had a relaxed start to our day as we did not need to leave for the airport for our flight to Shanghai for at least a couple of hours. This left us time to eat breakfast (that was included in our tariff) at the hotel. It turned out to…
Luoyang: The Wonders of Buddhist China Revealed at the Longmen Caves and the White Horse Temple
Thursday, August 16, 2018 Luoyang Viewing the Wonders of Buddhist China at the Longmen Grottoes and the White Horse Temple We had another extraordinary day! Indeed each day n China was proving to be a revelation. This was partly because our itinerary included places of which we had never heard and about which no one…