Highlights of my incursions into the Central Kingdom. In 2006 I went to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. In May 2007 I revisited Shanghai and Suzhou, as well as heading inland to Nanjing, and in October I finally made it to Beijing. Autumn 2008, Yunnan province and a few days in Shanghai, with a pilgrimage to the Lu Xun memorial park. Autumn 2009 took me to Huangshan in Anhui province. Xian, Beijing, Chengdu, Anhui province and Jiuzhaigou and a sunny afternoon in Shanghai. Spring 2010 and Guanxi province's tourist mecca Guilin and Yangshuo beckoned. Unfortunately the rainy season stopped me getting any "National Geographic " shots. November 2010 and for the first time, H came along too. I showed her the highlights of Shanghai and Suzhou before slipping off by myself to heavily polluted Shanxi province where the ancient town of Pingyao beckoned