 | First in Foshan
2007-11-26, Foshan, China. By: VernonC | | I am sitting in a chair of burnished steel looking at a black and
white photograph of Paris. I am drinking tea while soft music full of
uplifting major chords plays in the background. I have sat in... |
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 | Back to being the only Westerner in town...
2007-11-24, Huangshan, China. By: smithy2006 | | Arrived 45 mins late after reading half the Kite Runner, got a bit lost finding the hostel due to phone running out of credit and generally being really tired from the train journey (i had walked past... |
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 | Shanghai Washout
2007-11-23, Shanghai, China. By: smithy2006 | | The last couple of days were a bit of a washout all together, mainly due to the stinging hangover from Ed's birthday... Thursday, woke up late, watched two bad films in the Pathfinder and then Scary M... |
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 | Sex Museum and Ed's Birthday Bash
2007-11-21, Shanghai, China. By: smithy2006 | | Found out today the reason why everyone keeps on asking to have a photo taken with me... a chinese student gladly informed me it's because...
1. Your tall
2. You have long curly hair
3. and a big... |
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 | TV Tower and Hooters
2007-11-20, Shanghai, China. By: smithy2006 | | Big site seeing day today... started off at the TV Tower, 3rd biggest building in the world (biggest in Asia), Tom, Ed and I missioned to the top... well got the lift, quickest lift i've been in in my... |
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 | Day of Travel and arrival in Shanghai
2007-11-19, Nanjing, China. By: smithy2006 | | Lazy day for today.... just travelled to Shanghai! Had another over generous chinese girl handing me free nanjing delights... i'm currently being spoilt by other travellers on hard seats... not gonna ... |
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 | First Hangover...
2007-11-18, Nanjing, China. By: smithy2006 | | Felt pretty rough this morning... so slept in quite late! Went for a walk round Xuanwu Park in the Afternoon, it is bloody huge, lots of water and 5 islands, went to a zoo on one of the islands, which... |
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 | Nanjing 1912
2007-11-17, Nanjing, China. By: smithy2006 | | Found the Hostel easy, which makes a change, had a couple of hours kip after the train journey and then went for a walk round Nanjing, checked out the Zhonghua Men Gateway, which was well impressive, ... |
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 | Longman Caves
2007-11-16, Luoyang, China. By: smithy2006 | | Off i went to see the longman Caves, the only real reason for coming to Luoyang... to be honest i was a little dissappointed, but due to no fault of anyone apart from the scumbags that have looted the... |
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| Worth a giggle...
2007-11-15, Xi'an, China. By: smithy2006 | | Today was a day of travel... well i made it that way anyway... got on the right bus but wrong direction which was a bit of a nightmare, so ended up first time around at some random industrial estate i... |
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 | Terracota Army
2007-11-14, Xi'an, China. By: smithy2006 | | Went to see the Army today was another shit day... misty, cloudy... couldn't see 10 yards in front of you! Nightmare!
The exhibition was exactly what i was expecting! You can't get very close to th... |
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 | First Hard Seat Mission...
2007-11-13, Xi'an, China. By: smithy2006 | | So i left Beijing in the early evening... heading to check out some Warriors and some nice weather (weather, not to be). Undertook my first Hard seat mission (just to explain, Hard Seat is the cheapes... |
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 | Beijing Roundup
2007-11-12, beijing, China. By: smithy2006 | | Sunday was a sleeper... woke up at two! needed it big time! Pretty miserable day so had a random walk around the city... again! Saw a march at Sunset in Tian'anmen Square, the chinese flag is risen at... |
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 | Shanghai the Transformed Western-Like City
2007-11-06, Shanghai, China. By: AEnglish84 | | Last week, I was able to go to Shanghai. I had time off from work (Tuesday-Sunday) I disappeared and flew to Shanghai. This was my 1st domestic flight in another country. I was excited to see how flyi... |
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 | Reflections of a cultural incompetent!
2007-11-12, Tangshan, China. By: valminx | | Well, its been about 3 months here in China. Enough time to soak a little flavour, absorb a little culture by sheer osmosis and reflect a little on a journey less ordinary.
So what puts me in such ... |
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 | Smithy's in full flow...
2007-11-10, beijing, China. By: smithy2006 | | After a few days of Jet lag and Flu... smithy is back on top form! Went on mission to the Summer Palace today with my Great Wall partner Summer... tackled the Subway and Bus Service and came out smell... |
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 | The Great Wall
2007-11-09, beijing, China. By: smithy2006 | | Nightmare sleep last night... god knows why... 3 hours was not a great preparation for a 10k walk up and down some mountains but who's complaining!
Set off at 6 for Jinshanling which took about 3 h... |
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 | Mutton dressed as Dog...
2007-11-08, Beijing, China. By: smithy2006 | | Day two of the Asian Adventure was another slow one! Still not really with it... sleeping in, the flu is not helping! Once i had got myself sorted changing money at the bank and booking my trip to the... |
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| A quiet weekend in Tianjin?
2007-11-01, Tianjin, China. By: Valminx | | We decided to go to Tianjin for the weekend as my kids had exams and i had the Monday off lessons, so we contacted one of the firls we met in bootcamp who lives there so we could meet up for dinner/a ... |
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 | Do it again...
2007-11-06, BEIJING, China. By: smithy2006 | | BA is the way forward... i've tasted it! After god know's how many Ryanair flights, the BA really know where it's at, well that's what i personally thought anyway, but the amount of complainers was am... |
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| Where did October go?
2007-11-01, Tangshan, China. By: Valminx | | Well we are now in November somehow, 3months into our China adventure. Somethings are easy to adjust to whilst some are not so (work for instance lol). So where to begin? We went to Beijing at the beg... |
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 | Smiles
2007-10-30, Nanning, China. By: dilleybug | | I am reading this fabulous book called Oracle Bones. I want to write some of my favorite exerpts more because it is faster for me to type than to write, AND i think you would enjoy it!
"A fist trap... |
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 | Land of the Dragon
2007-10-29, Nanning, China. By: dilleybug | | I am in Nanning, roughly three hours from the vietnam border, waiting patiently for my visa. the Vietmanese consulate is closed today and there isn't a whole lot to do here, so i am killing time in th... |
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 | More Riding...
2007-10-25, Yangshuo, China. By: dilleybug | | My butt hurts. We spent 5 hours on bikes riding to Dragon Bridge. The scenery here is absolutely amazing. Such beautiful countryside and just outside of Yangshuo! The people are harvesting the rice no... |
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 | Rice Terraces
2007-10-25, Longji, China. By: lou | | Had a lot of travelling to do to get to the Rice Terraces. Firstly we got a bus from Yangshuo back into Guillen were we stored our rucksacks for the next couple of days. From there we hopped onto a ... |
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