We went back to the island, where the weather is much nicer (but the food is worse) and everything is more natural. This time we went by ourselves, with daddy driving the whole trip. As said before, I really love travelling! 😀
Mommy said a very funny and sad sentence at the same time: “This place is still like the original China, which is sadly disappearing.. but I actually find myself hoping it develops faster!!”
I like this Dongbei restaurant, it has a lot of funny objects attached around, old communist posters and a very nice old man working there, who always comes to greet me and smile to me. Also I like the food there 🙂 I love eating the dumplings’ skin and I also experienced for the first time eating fish (a big steamed perch)! 😛
On a beautiful sunny day, we met a lovely couple of very young old people, mr and mrs Wang. They live next to the sea, every day go swimming, take care of their garden and keep super healthy. Well done!!
The last two photos were taken by mr Wang himself, they’re so good! Thank you! 🙂
Our long trip across China brought us from the cold ShanDong to the hot DongShan, two very different and special places.
DongShan is a very natural and beautiful island, still not developed but with so much work already under way.
We visited two bays, the sea was so calm and clear, like a beautiful blue silk sheet. When they brought me on the beach, just in front of the waves, I laughed so much and suddenly remembered the days in Sicily. 🙂
A pity it was still too cold to swim, I am really looking forward to enter the sea! 😀
We slept in a small villa on the seaside and I was happy (and with great appetite!) the whole time.
Our friends Weiwei and Lishan were so good and played a lot with me.
I went to see the botanic garden together with grandpa and grandma… it was HUGE and very beautiful, an incredible landscape full of so many different trees.
In the end we arrived to a place, next to a Buddhist female monastery, which was full of cats! They welcomed us with their meows and I playfully screamed at them. 😀
Such a wonderful and peaceful place!
Gulangyu is a very cute little island next to Xiamen, full of classical villas and empty of cars: no vehicles are allowed, not even bicycles… so when my mommy and daddy went visiting they came back with their legs totally broken from too much walk!
Today I am ten months old, and still growing fast 😉
We went to celebrate in an Italian restaurant, since I love pizza so much!!
When people see me they all think I am a doll… but why? Can’t you believe my cute beauty is real? 😀 😀
Here we are, finally! Just arrived to the warm south! To the city of Xiamen, beautiful and green, built on an island.
I’m really eager to go to the sea but we are still waiting for the warmest sun and the bluest sky! Come quickly!!
In the restaurants and cafes of Qingdao with grandma and grandpa, whom I finally meet!!
The first one is the Italian restaurant where my uncle Kai works. The second, a Japanese restaurant where you can order and eat as much as you want. The third one was a ShanXi cuisine restaurant full of traditional things: grandma brought me around and helped me explore all of them! 🙂
And finally in a café where they served a very good espresso (it seems my parents can’t live without it… and as you know I also love it! :P). In that café I even got two new cute japanese books, a gift from the owner.
In the last two photos you can see an open air barber shop!!
My long trip started by train, going to Milan, then taxi to the hotel, spent one night there and the next morning took the airplane. You can see me in all these steps, very happy and never complaining nor crying, not even in the airplane…
I am a natural born traveller! See how relaxed I was when I arrived in Shanghai airport 😛
But in the end the best was to finally sleep in a real bed!
