Suzhou

July 10 (Sunday) [several photos courtesy of Andres & Paulina]

Last Sunday, on Andres & Paulina's second day in Shanghai, we took the train to Suzhou. The fastest express train takes 40 minutes. I had been to Suzhou in April, and preferred seeing gardens I had not seen just three months ago. But I did take everybody (A&P + Gina and Little Sister) to see the Master of the Nets (my favorite):







After lunch, we headed out to the west side of town to see the Lingering Garden (one that I had seen with my mother a few years ago but that I had not seen in March).













It was very hot that day (that's probably why Andres looks so unhappy in the last picture), so we did not squeeze in a third garden before returning to Shanghai. While A&P and Little Sister went shopping, Gina took me to a promising bookstore that she had noticed during one of the cab rides. I bought volume 13 of Zhongguo shufa quanji (Complete Chinese Calligraphy).