Wuxi Trip

In March, I went on a short trip to Wuxi with one other teacher.  We got off the bus, checked in, and went out to eat.  I do like Chinese food, but after eating it every day, finding Western food is a top priority.  We went to an amazing Italian restaurant.  The place was run by an Italian immigrant and all of the ingredients were imported from Italy.  I got the cannelloni.  It was heaven!

After that amazing lunch, we checked out the Old Street area of Wuxi.

In the Old Street area, there was a temple called Nanchan Temple.  My friend said that he'd been around there before, but he couldn't find the "way in."  Luckily, I saw this helpful sign:

The temple was really beautiful.  We even got to see an actual service going on (no pictures of that).  Here are some pictures of the temple:

We also went to the silk museum.  Wuxi was a major player in the silk trade for a long time.  However, the museum was pretty bad.  It just had some replicas of various silk-related items.  So, we followed it up by going to a Belgium Beer Bar.  Good beer is hard to find in China, but this place was stocked.  For the beer fans out there, I had a Delirium Tremens, and by British friend enjoyed a pint of Boddington's.

Overall, it was a great trip!

I'll try to post about my trips to Nanjing and Shanghai as soon as possible.