Trip to the Master of the Nets Garden

Suzhou is known for its Chinese Gardens. According to Lonely Planet, the Master of the Nets Garden is one of the best in the city, even though it is small. We took a walk down a narrow street to get to the entrance, which had stalls on either side selling touristy stuff. Here are a few of our pictures.

The apartment

So...here are the pictures of our apartments. It's pretty nice, if we do say so.

Location, location, location...

I just created a google map with the locations of our apartment and the school. As you can see, I am close to school, but we are not actually very close to Suzhou city. We have to take a taxi whenever we want to go downtown.

Where we live

Finally on-line!

We have arrived! Our apartment is so big we can't believe it. Now we need to get all of our stuff put away. We are going to take pictures today, so that will be the next bit to get added to this. We are here safe and sound, and will be updating this blog now that we have our VPN set up. China likes to block internet traffic to lots of sites, including blogging sites. With some creative use of the blackberry Storm I brought, I was able to get this all set up. More soon!