Happy!

I feel so happy to go to a land that we forget was not open to the world not that long ago. To visit China, one had to be part of a group tour organized by China International Travel Service, the state tourism agency! I remember as a kid, that land was far away and unknown and very "foreign". I remember reading about the colonial era of the 1920 and 1930, the European concessions and so on. Now I get to see it myself with my own eyes! I am happy to go to China with a group of people, who like myself , love nature, plants and flowers; and to visit those gardens that we kept reading, and learning about. We studied the symbolism and significance, now we will see and experience .... not an image anymore, not a dream but reality.