It’s a week through the fresh new year of 2024. 2023 was like my second full year since I moved back to Sabah. It was not the most eventful of year, but at least it was a big jump from those gloomy and dark years when the pandemic was still very much in control of how the world revolved and worked. Travel-wise, I managed to go to three countries, which was still above the targeted average of traveling out to…
We returned to Shanghai after spending the first two nights in Wuxi. Wuxi was amazing in its own ways, but I was looking forward more to spending our next few days in Shanghai. We checked in at the Mercure Hotel which was located right smack in the middle of Shanghai, except that it was hard to tell if there was such a thing as middle of Shanghai since the whole city is more of a combination of a few sub-cities….
So my job had required me to travel out to China for the very first time not so long time ago. China had always been in my bucketlist for as long as I could remember, but given the geographical size of the mainland and the existence of so many interesting places that I wanted to go to, my plan for a trip to this gigantic nation would always halt because I could not decide where to go first and where…