One of our last trips out with Roy was to the Nanshe Ancient Village, located in Dongguan which is about 1 hour from here. We managed to get just a little lost on the way with Rose's normal argument with the SatNav, but we got there eventually. The village is mostly unoccupied but with the buildings mostly preserved, the only folk around seemed to be old ones which is quite normal for most of the ancient villages we have been to so far. 
Roy unfortunately got a bit sick while we were there vomiting quite a bit, his stomach had a bit of a disagreement with something he and in combination with a painkiller he was taking and after being sick a few times when we got back to Shenzhen we took him to the hospital to check him out and they put him on a couple of drips and after that he was fine again ready for his trip back to Hong Kong and home again.
We also had a couple of short trips to the local theme park, 'Splendid China' which is China in miniature and also we went to a water show at Shenzhen bay and also to the local zoo to see a panda, (we were told they had some) but it turned out they didn't have any after all, only the small fox like red pandas.
All in all he enjoyed the trips despite the sickness, we tried not to wear the old boy out so we didn't go out every day, having a few days rest between trips, which seemed to have worked out OK.

The show ended up being at the Shenzhen Technical College not the the university as I was first told, but that didn't matter, it was a good night, I didn't get booed off stage and they seemed to enjoy my songs. Rose did a video for me, which unfortunately wasn't very good but its all I have, I have managed to get it to look a little reasonable.

During the visit of our friend Roy (81) from the UK, we made a short 2 day trip to the city of Harbin in the far north of China, right next to the Russian border, the nearest Russian town was the Naval port of Vladivostok and it was bloody cold, mostly around minus 25 degrees Celsius. I have uploaded the photos of the visit as you will see they are in 3 lots, one is of the Songhua river which is totally frozen over and is used as a road and recreation, one is of the Harbin Ice City That they build every year and one is of the Snow sculptures, they also have an ice sculpture competition but that didn't start till the 5th of January and we were only there from the 25th December to 27th.