Gill Puckridge explores turning sixty, uprooting her life, and traveling to China. Deep fried cockroaches, dancing the cha-cha under the stars, and backpacking up the Li River were the mildest of her experiences. Throw in some miscommunication over cultural customs and you have the recipe for an exciting, and often hilarious, journey to China. An inspiration for anyone looking for youthful wonder in their golden years.
Gillybean in China is the first book in a series about Gillybean's adventures around the world.
Table of Contents
1 Drawing the Line
2 Jump
3 London
4 Midnight Prawns
5 Where Did You Hide the Tramway?
6 Call That a Temple?
7 Ni Hao, China
8 Exploring Shenzhen
9 Hair, by Google
10 Dafen
11 Dinner on Cloud 99
12 A Lady of Leisure
13 Take That, Bureaucrat
14 Hey Ho, I'm off to Guangzhou
15 I'm Hungry
16 My First Day at School
17 Somewhere to Live
18 Finding My Feet
19 Learning to Commute
20 My Mad Lithuanian Roomie
21 Same Same, but Different
22 And They Call This Work?
23 Enhancing My Lessons
24 Weekends
25 Food for Thought
26 Keep Moving
27 Decisions, Decisions
28 Eating out, Guangzhou Style
29 A Distressing Discovery
30 Communication
31 A Question of Balance
32 See Gilly Play
33 A Trip to Guanxi
34 Attitude and Altitude
35 Bikes, Boats, and Water Buffalos
36 Up the River to Who Knows Where
37 Guilin
38 Longji Rice Terraces
39 Back in Yangshuo
40 Nansha
41 Return to Hong Kong
42 It's All over Now

Acknowledgements
About the Author
Gillybean in South America
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