I come from Suzhou, China, a great old cultural city with 2500 years of history. I have been here about 4 months, and found Sheffield was a wonderful place.

Please allow me submit some pics of my hometown firstly, then the photos of Sheffield.

ive been to suzhou and it is truly beautiful....the city is famous for its gardens and that honour is well deserved.

i had a wonderful time when i visited and have very fond memories of my time there.

welcome to sheffield and hope you are happy here :)

x

Bring on the pictures.
:)

Thanks for your nice words :) Now I submit some photos of flowers in the gardens of Suzhou, as sophiec mentioned.

One of my friends likes taking photos for the classical gardens, so I put his photos here:


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ive been to suzhou and it is truly beautiful....the city is famous for its gardens and that honour is well deserved.

i had a wonderful time when i visited and have very fond memories of my time there.

welcome to sheffield and hope you are happy here :)

x

So glad to learn you have been to my hometown. :) Happy to know you like there. Yes, every cultural place should be a deep memory in visitors' hearts.

Yorkshire is not a strange place for me, two years ago I heard this place, and York, from my British friend. So I enjoy the life here, and feel it is like my home.

Bring on the pictures.
:)

Hope you like these photos.

Suzhou, my hometown, is a rainy city. Therefore, when I came to Peak District in a rainy day, it reminded me of Suzhou.

This is my letter to my British friend 4 months ago, put it here:

''I must say, it would be very, very hard to leave here, as I love here deeper and deeper. I never left my hometown for long time and I used to believe it is the best place for living, so, you know, hard to believe at that time, I would like other place that much and my hometown now became a memory, not a place I looking forward to go back and stay.

The driver, John, you may see him in the photo, has very good character. At times he sang for us and joked with us. ‘’Why you left China?’’ He asked me and another girl who sat in the first line, ‘’to enjoy the sunshine here’’? Could not help laughing with his words. He watched his picture in my camera and said ‘’it is a real one’’. When my friend asked him why he didn’t feel cold, he said ‘’I am a man.’’ Interesting isn’t him? We also met his boy, looked like a copy of him.''

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this really reminds me of a concert i went to in one of the gardens.

it was an evening concert of traditional music played through a tour of the gardens.

i went back the next day to see the garden properly and it was so pretty, but i was there in august so i was too late for the blossom :(

these are wonderful photo zoe and i think youve captured the mist perfectly in the peak district.


x

I come from Suzhou, China, too, hi my friend!

this really reminds me of a concert i went to in one of the gardens.

it was an evening concert of traditional music played through a tour of the gardens.

i went back the next day to see the garden properly and it was so pretty, but i was there in august so i was too late for the blossom :(

these are wonderful photo zoe and i think youve captured the mist perfectly in the peak district.


x

Glad to meet you here. :) Yeah, the gardens are amazing, they appear differently every month. I guess the garden you once have visited may was not the main garden, if you went to the main garden of Suzhou in August, you still could see flowers there. :cool:

These gardens once were private gardens of those rich people, hundreds of years ago, but now they are public places. :) They are well designed, and own long history.

Do you like the traditional music there?

Glad you like them. :) I will submit more here, hope they would not bother you.

I come from Suzhou, China, too, hi my friend!

Haha, here you are, my best friend. I do miss the happy time we played in the gardens together and took photos for each other. Now I am lonesome and have no new photos for my own.

Not sure how do you feel about Sheffield, my friends, in my opinion, it is a peaceful place, and I do like its blue sky, white clouds and green grass.

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some really nice pics :)

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some really nice pics :)

Thanks. :)

Sheffield is my first impression of UK.

Continue, some pics of Suzhou, hope you like them. :)

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Guys, this is the Ferris Wheel of Suzhou, you may find it is built in the lake, does it remind you of the Sheffield Eye? :)

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