Hola everyone!
We’re travelling again – this time mostly in Spain, with perhaps a side trip Morocco.
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UPDATE: Ash is posting Instagrams, which you can check out here!
Sophia will also be posting small photos (like Instagrams) here.
Cheers,
Ash and Sophia
Emily’s lovely, furry, crazy ragdolls! 
It is time for some more photos of Saturn (our crazy cat)!
I have only included a few this time. If you want to see more, take a look at our original post about Saturn. The highlight is definitely the one of her trying to sit on top of a flat screen TV. Surely that’s not comfortable!
After 6 years, I have finally graduated!!!
As Sophia pointed out in the previous post, the quadrangle of the University of Sydney is a very scenic place for graduation photos. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t on our side this time, but we still managed to get some good photos, thanks to the photographic mastery of Sophia and my Dad.
The main hall and quadrangle at Sydney Uni provides a lovely backdrop for graduation photos. Ash’s graduation is coming up in a week or two, so I thought I would share a few graduation and after party photos. I have to thank my sister Emily for taking some awesome photos from the back of the hall. Apologies for the photos being in such a random order.
One of the unexpected gems of our Japan trip was a little mountain village called Shirakawago. The town is nestled in the Japanese Alps, in quite a remote area. The town only supports about 700 people, and has a distinct style of housing to help deal with the extremely heavy snowfall the town receives each winter. Shirakawago was certainly one of the most scenic places we went to in Japan, and that’s saying something!
The Chinese have a saying: “If you haven’t been to the Great Wall, then you’re not a real Han”. Once you get there, you can understand why they’re so proud of it – It’s amazing!!
The part of the Great Wall that we decided to visit this time was slightly more adventurous than the standard package tour to Badaling (八达岭) or Mutianyu (慕田峪). Instead of the recently reconstructed (and overcrowded) sections, we opted to hike from Jinshanling (金山岭) to Simatai (司马台), based roughly on some instructions that we found on a Chinese travel site. Along for the ride were Danny and Dianne, who we had just met at Dan and Maggie’s wedding.
Although we started off a bit worried about getting stuck, we ended up having a fantastic day, with no major glitches at all! (That said, I’ll definitely be posting some more detailed instructions in a future post, based on the assumption that you speak no Mandarin!)
Anyway, practicalities aside, here are some of our photos from the day!
Sīmǎtái
These photos are a selection of some of my favourites up to about 2007 (I’ll put up another post some time with some more recent photos too!). The locations include Japan, Italy, Portugal, China and Australia.
Last week, we headed off to Dan and Maggie’s hometown of Shangyu (上虞), Zhejiang (浙江) province in China to attend their traditional Chinese wedding! We were very lucky to be invited by Dan and Maggie to be part of their bridal party, and to experience the intimacy of a wedding usually only family members are party to!
The photos below capture the arrival of Dan and his boys at Maggie’s house to pick up the bride. In accordance with Chinese tradition, Dan had to demonstrate his love for Maggie by completing a series of obstacles set up by the girls. His boys help him out by completing the tasks with/for him.
Ashley Craig
Sophia Chong
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