Kei te mihi nunui ki a koutou katoa. Welcome to our blog.

This blog was created to help us all with our travel to and throughout China, and then home again.

It is about us going back to where our grandfather was from and therefore finding ourselves. (See the 'about me' section at the bottom of the page.) For those who don't know about 'blogs.' It's pretty simple, you can just read them and/or you can add comments if you want to. The first one is usually at the bottom and the most recent addition is at the top of the page. Then of course, you might want to learn to speak a few Cantonese words or play with the kitten in the side bar. I will be adding more things as time goes on.

Have fun, visit this page, join in and I hope that some of the hints will be helpful.


Saturday

Our turangawaewae is where???

What we knew was that our Grandfather came from 'Canton' or rather Guangzhou in Guangdong. Speaking with Uncle Anaru we found out that we came from a place called Saa-teen (my spelling). So after giving the 'shout out' to the many travel sites that I'm a member of, I was told that:

**I'm not sure this is the one you're looking for, but there's a Sha Tin in
Hong Kong, which is a
lso in the Pearl River Delta. And;
**There is a small town called "Fuwan", on the banks of the widest branch of the Pearl River (Xi Jiang). It is just north of a small city called Gaoming Qu, which is just north of Heshan (a larger city). But I don't see any village called "Saa-teen" nearby.

The place I was looking for was Shekki, the capital? of Zhongshan and Foo-waa, is a hotel called FuHua. Now, all I have to do is find the village called "Die-chong?" or Daa-chong? This is 20 - 30 minutes south of Shekki? The photo is of Shekki in 1930.

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