Waiting until the cool weather

I am finding it hard to believe that we live directly across from Gulangyu (seen here from our balcony) and yet have still not visited it. Famous for the number of pianos it has (they even have a piano festival each year), the architecture from foreign embassies that used to be situated there, and that neither cars nor trucks are allowed on it - it is visited by many tourists. But not us. Not yet at least. We were advised to wait until the cooler months to visit it as then you could spend longer walking around the island, especially with children and the distances that they cover. So I look out over the water at the ferries floating past (complete with loudspeaker commentary in chinese) and content myself with that.