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Travel Blogs from Shaowu, China
The Spring Festival Ends With The Lantern Festival
This is a top pick! ... , entire streets are blocked off, with lanterns mounted above and to the sides, creating a hallway of lamps. Some cities in North China even make lanterns from blocks of ice! And just as in days gone by, the billion-watt background sets the scene for ...
Christine or Cybil or Both
This is a top pick! Hey Hey and a Big G'Day Toya After an awesome day in class with the kids it was time for my afternoon bike ride. With shiny new gears and small cogs I set my front wheel in the direction of yesterdays ride. For those of you who ...
The New Terms Happenings...So Far, Not Much!
This is a top pick! ... and a half years. They were welcomed by several big dinners put on by the school along with some splendid fireworks for Shaowu’s late celebration of the Lantern Festival. I spent the first month introducing them to the city, its walks, small ...
Brainz Brainz, I've Come To Eat Your Brainz!
This is a top pick! ... the morning. Then after a DVD I head back to bed to repeat it all again! Oh yeah, when I first arrived in Shaowu I asked people where I could buy some more micro-fibre clothes from (Cool N Dry). They looked at mine and felt it and no ...
Back In The Rice Fields Around Shaowu City
This is a top pick! ... of the eight most prominent Clan Dwellings along with one of the four ancient mosques. Throughout its history Shaowu city has given China two prime ministers, seven army generals, the Song Dynasty national hero Li Gang and the famous literary ...
When Found in a Box She Wore a Small Face
This is a top pick! ... a billion emails and questions, calmed a lot of nerves and fears along with helping many people find their way into and around China but nothing really has come close to what I have been lucky enough to have offered Jia Hong and Lorena find this day. As ...
Happy Mothers Day Mar Kettle...Miss N Luvya Mate x
This is a top pick! ... . Today Mothers Day is celebrated in several countries including US, UK, India, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Mexico, Canada, China, Japan and Belgium. People take the day as an opportunity to pay tribute to their mothers and thank them for ...
The End of My Time In Shaowu & Fujian Province
This is a top pick! ... can be found. Where ever I end up I'm sure I will have an awesome time, so I guess this is goodbye from not only Shaowu city but this will also be my second last blog from the lush green south eastern province of Fujian….for now anyhow! Beers N ...
A Beautiful Mountain N The Alleys Of The Old Town
This is a top pick! ... hours on the phone to different friends in Australia before finally getting out of bed to start the day. At the moment in Shaowu I am still totally confused as to where north south east and west are. My Shaowu map has no 'north' focus point ...
Its Time To See All Her Faces For Myself
This is a top pick! ... is busy snapping the dust off its cummerbund. This city is a city typifying the huge disparities of modern China - monumental building projects pushing towards the sky, glinting department stores swing open their doors to the stylish elite, while ...
Womens Day Celebrations
This is a top pick! ... . There were also 'female only' lucky dips with cash prizes, cosmetics and other fun stuff. Though here in China it is known as 'International Women's Day' I don't ever seem to recall it being celebrated back home. Maybe it ...
A Black N White Wuyishan Adventure
This is a top pick! ... WHY BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS? As I’ve been to Wuyishan many times in the three years I’ve lived off and on in Shaowu city, each time I have visited with different people and taken them on the same trails so this time I thought I would do things ...
Tree Planting Day & Depressing Bare Ugly Hills
This is a top pick! ... . Wood is used for all meals and heating throughout the freezing cold months of the year. Everything we foreigners import from China that has wood somewhere in its making has come from these now ugly bare depressing hills. ...
Beers N Noodles to My Nieces N Nephews!
This is a top pick! ... they stand no more than waist deep in the South China Sea. From the incredibly picturesque border that separates China and Vietnam where the beer freely flowed and where poor Chinese Policeman Brad spent half the time confused as to why the ...
The Qing Ming Tomb Sweeping Festival
This is a top pick! ... huge importance due to it being my friend Yan's Birthday it also has another much older and greater importance. Today in China is the Qingming Festival (Clear and Bright Festival). It is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day ...
Pigs Eyes, Chicken Feet & Bat Wings Snax Part 6
This is a top pick! ... The photos of the water fountain are actually the cities Peoples Square Music Fountain. Most Chinese cities will have one of these and Shaowu boasts the largest on in the area. Of course it is nothing compared to the one in Xi'an which is ...
The Dragon Boat Festival Less The Festival
This is a top pick! ... traditional Dragon Boat Festival food 'Zong Zi'. So I find out that there actually were Dragon Boat races in Shaowu..... .....LAST FREAKIN YEAR! I don't know how many people I asked and they all said the same thing. No, no Dragon ...
Christmas In China Mate, I Even Went to Church
This is a top pick! ... is, the Chinese New Year is only a month away, this also costs most families more than they can afford. China celebrates an extensive calendar of Festivals and Celebrations each year that cost each family a lot of money. BUT...these ...
The Beer Man Wedding Feast N Back In The Fields
This is a top pick! Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya, Speaking of Passports, I finally received mine back two days ago! Happily with a new Residential Visa that expires next APRIL! Now my Winter Breaks can be used fully as I lost half of last years ...
THREE YEARS LIVING IN CHINA! MAAAAAAAAATE!
This is a top pick! ... and somewhat organised yet confused chaos! I've pretty much decided that this will be my last term here in Shaowu and Fujian Province. Change calls and the winds of change are beginning to stir. While most will be heading ...
The Chinese Lantern Festival 2008
This is a top pick! ... it didnīt begin at 8:30pm. Why would it begin at the time I was told? Thatīs almost impossible here in China. Thirty minutes later Luo Wei and I caught a Cyclo-cab to the Peoples Square and actually made the beginning of it ...
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
This is a top pick! ... of the Dragon Boat Festival's Origin At the end of the Zhou Dynasty (1100 - 221 BC), the country known presently as China had fallen into a state of conflict and despair. The Zhou Dynasty had now ruled for several centuries but many other states were ...
The Search For The Ancient Mosque
This is a top pick! ... arrangement with the city government's 'Muslim Affairs Department' to promote Muslim tourism. So there you have it, Shaowu houses an ancient Mosque. It probably still stands and survived the 'Cultural Revolution' BECAUSE NO ONE COULD ...
Do You Eat Cats N Dogs N Bats N Frogs Part 6
This is a top pick! ... week. And not a health inspector in sight! Over the past year and a bit that I've been living in Shaowu city I've managed to eat my way around most of the cities pokey little restaurants. These ones are very much at the top of ...
Do You Eat Cats N Dogs N Bats N Frogs Part 8
This is a top pick! ... week. And not a health inspector in sight! Over the past year and a bit that I've been living in Shaowu city I've managed to eat my way around most of the cities pokey little restaurants. These ones are very much at the top of ...
International Workers Day With Happy Luo Wei
This is a top pick! ... travel at a time like that! This year there was no time to pack the pack and bugger off into the wild blue yonder. Shaowu was the place to be and I was ever so happy to be there as Luo Wei was with me. Yes the Super Northern Train Girl ...
Transitions Back Into My New Life in Fujian
This is a top pick! ... the Leeds Lads who had only the opportunity to see awesomeness of the Yangshuo area of Guangxi Province here in China. Upon our arrival in Shaowu City the party began and believe me it hasn’t stopped since. Before even reaching our school we ...
Happy TEACHERS DAY to all in China
This is a top pick! ... the merits of ethical rule. In his later years, Confucius reorganized the ancient texts, thus laying a solid foundation for China's enduring civilization. In 1939 the Ministry of Education pronounced that Confucius' birthday would be celebrated on ...
Happy Birthday China N Another Week Off to Ride
This is a top pick! ... to Xi'an to see Luo Wei? Sadly for us both the answer is no. My pack is still packed away and I'm still in Shaowu. Why? Money, money, money along with flight schedules from Wuyi Shan to Xian. I couldn't leave until Tuesday evening and ...