China Summer 2019 (Guangzhou, Shanghai)

During the summer of 2019, I went to Guangzhou, Shanghai, and, of course, Beijing. In Guangzhou, we were mostly just visiting family (and eating a lot).

Bridge with lights Bridge with lights Tower with rainbow lights
Some pictures of Guangzhou at night, including the Canton Tower. (Click on any image to view at full resolution.)

If the Guangzhou skyline looks familiar, that might be because my profile picture on a few different sites was taken there:

Head of Asian man on boat at night
My profile picture for more than a few websites. Annabel took this picture on a boat. (Click on any image to view at full resolution.)

The next week, my dad was going on a business trip to Shanghai and asked if I wanted to tag along. While he was working, I walked around the city and visited one of the museums.

Alleyway Shanghai skyline at night Traditional Chinese buildings
Some pictures taken while walking around Shanghai. (Click on any image to view at full resolution.)

As a “father–son bonding activity,” we went to a couple of bars to have my first drink. (The legal drinking age in China is eighteen, whereas it’s twenty-one in the US.) I don’t have the pictures of this, although I know that they exist…

We also visited a very tiny island somewhere in the middle of a lake for some kind of church retreat, I think. Our rooms were quite hot and full of flies. There are probably some good pictures of this somewhere, but I’ll have to look for them.