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Qingdao Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Qingdao, China
An icy blast
... a walk around a rather isolated beach with rugged mountains in the background, how lovely. The sunshine occasionally compensating for the chill. Qingdao is also famous for being the national brand for beer, we found the brewery, but no tours doing. We ...
Christmas Sweater Story
... , family first-if only for a couple of days... Pondering the familiar, we decided to start at the most familiar place in Qingdao: the Jusco. Actually, the pedestrian mall across the street from the Jusco was our starting place, following a tip from a ...
Sloth in the Sun
... with mustard, mashed potatoes, and sauerkraut. We had Paulaner beer and DAB. I never liked beer much before coming to China, save for Abita Amber, but I've grown to like and appreciate it since it's often the only beverage available in Chinese ...
Best Country to Lose Your Bank Card In
... lingering cold so he decided to stay in our room for the morning. The Governor's Mansion was built in 1908 for the governor of Qingdao when it was under German colonial rule. Later, both Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping stayed in the house, which is now ...
The Ticket office
... 'vel, mesmo) mas é nesta direcção. Em vez de fazer uma viagem de 24 horas, faço 3 de 8 horas e visito três locais entretanto: Qingdao, Qufu e Nanjing (uma das antigas capitais). Este foi o plano que fiz no próprio dia. Exequível? Claro que sim. Tem ...
Arbeitstag
Heute habe ich den ganzen Tag gearbeitet, dazwischen begleitete ich meine Managerin zum Rattengiftkunden. Da der Rattengiftkunde heute morgen nochmals anrufen wollte, musste ich zur Stelle sein. Wir verabredeten uns bei ihm zu Hause. Tiandihui würde ...
O ensopado de documentos / An ocean from the sky
... : uma vez guardados num pacote de lenços de papel, foram também afectados pela intempérie. O telemóvel do meu número da china deixou de funcionar. Mas apenas por dois dias. Agora já pode continuar a receber as vossas mensagens. Já agora, uma dica ...
Bags of beer and muscle beaches
... of grapes and half-built European castles with moats.....is this your next wine destination? We saw the Tsing Dao brewery (China's first internationally traded product), drank beer from plastic bags (I didn't request it that way, just how it's sold), ...
Der Letzte
Unglaubliches hat sich zugetragen. Und ich war endlich auf der Spitze Qingdaos! Am Freitag besuchten wir mit der Schule die IT-Street, wo allerlei Elektrogrümpel angeboten wird. Ich kaufte mir ein paar Audiokabel, ohne genau zu wissen warum und ...
Die Fabrik
Heute war ich endlich in der Capfabrik. Es gab viel zu sehen und zu essen. Nach einer zweistündingen Fahrt durch die Vororte Qingdaos kam ich endlich in Jiaozhou an. In diesem Bezirk gibt es viele Cap- und Kunsthaarfabriken. Die Fabrik von Evolution ...
Its Always Beer O'Clock In Qingdao
... can do about it except smile and wait through it. At least I hadn't been making this trip on my birthday. Arriving in Qingdao shortly after dark, I immediately booked my bus on to Beijing for the day after tomorrow, knowing that they may well get booked ...
Glück gehabt!
Ich bin knapp einer Verhaftung entgangen. Und ich hab mein Zertifikat! Wären Max und ich am Sonntagmorgen fünf Minuten später gegangen, hatten wir auf dem Poleizeiposten schlafen dürfen. Eine völlig versoffene Nudel schreite vor dem Club rum, Max ...
China Exit Review
... the Mings, establishing the last Chinese empire, the Qing Dynasty. 15. Qingdao Tsingtao Brewery. One of China's greatest commercial successes, established by the invading Germans in 1909. Now an ...
Qingdao
... and we made friends with locals who took us out and we partied with. The famous Tsingtao beer is made in Qingdao and they say it is the best in China. It was originally a German brewery and then the Chinese bought it out many years ago. The beer was ...
Motivational Messages Abound!
... sign not far from the one before. These inspirational, motivational, instructive, alarming, exciting, bold signs abound all over Qingdao: in markets, at bus stops, on billboards...they're ubiquitous. You can't escape the opportunity to educate ...
Erste Erkenntnisse
... mein Büro. Damit hatte ich nicht gerechnet. Eigentlich war das ja erst für nächste Woche geplant, ich wollte ausschlafen, Qingdao fotographieren und mein Projet chinoise vorantreiben. So stand ich also auf einmal in einem Büro mit 20 Chinesen. Die ...
Snowing and Cold
After almost a couple of years in tropical climes, the sight of snow is unexpected and strangely welcome, although it does lead me to throw a few slightly concerned glances around the room at my totally inappropriate tropical wardrobe. Here I am with the ...
Deutscher Filz
Bevor der Deutsche Filz die Schweiz befiel, war er in Qingdao. Den heutigen Morgen verbrachte ich mit Sightseeing und Shopping. Die deutschen Kolonialbauten waren unübersehbar. Auch das weltberühmte "Tsingtao" Bier ist ein Erbe der Deutschen. Am Abend ...
Relaxing in the Hotel
The breakfast buffet is yet the largest one we have found...simply everything that one can imagine. Endless amounts of food. Today we just relax in the hotel, go to the swimming pool and even have room service! Perfect day of ...
Frustrating ferry stories
... out at the open sea. Sometimes the guide book gets it wrong, sometimes the reality is far removed from our imagination. Our arrival in Qingdao was probably the most challenging we've had so far. Our first task as always was to get to our hostel. We ...
Conquering Mt Laoshan
... it in there. Unfortunately it didn't but we did buy some German cornflake and hazelnut chocolate which was amazing. We arrived at Qingdao station only to find out that it was also called Zhanqiao station and we had been searching for a non-existent ...
Qingdao
... it's Chinese. For a city with a large deep-water port, a colonial history and high levels of multinational investment, Qingdao is unashamedly Chinese. It doesn't appear to be surfing a fashionable wave of international culture, nor are there signs of ...
Chillen in Chilldao
... wunderschön! Heute hatten wir dann unsere erste Exkursion von der Uni aus: Es ging in die Brauerei des berühmten Qingdao-Biers. Die Besichtigung des Museums und die anschließende Bierprobe waren natürlich gerade für mich suuuuperspannend. Vor allem ...
Now I Feel Like We're in the Jungle
On Monday, our last full day in Qingdao, we took a side trip to Lao Shan, which is a beach-side mountain about an hour outside the city. Following the advice of the Lonely Planet and the staff at our hostel, we took a city bus to the mountain. ...
A Sterling Story
... a person more inclined towards the show biz than, say, me (he is a former model after all). Anyway, his girlfriend, Ava, a Qingdao native, called him up one morning and had some urgent business. The Haier Corp needs a white guy. In a business ...
China
... nbsp;RMB (13 pence) to go to a quieter private beache (which we did!). Had one of the best meals in china here...at a seafood restaurant where you got to pick your fish first...floating in it's little acquarium...poor thing...(as you can tell ...
Goodbye Mama, I'm off to Yokohama!
... that I got to experience the culture best as well as be able to actually converse with some Japanese people. Well, we arrived in China about 3 hours ago and are just waiting to get off the ship, so let the next adventure begin! ...
2 kilos of beer please...
After dragging ourselves away from Beijing, we arrived at the beachside resort of Qingdao - most famous as the home of Tsingtao, China's number 1 beer. We spent the first night chilling out to try and recover from the drinking sessions in Beijing ...
"Come and Knock on My Door"
The pleasures of a Chinese Banquet do not stop at exotic food and hearty toasts, though that is where they begin. Once eyes and belly are full, once the "baijo" starts to tingle in your throat and the snails suddenly start to look tasty, then it is time ...
Why do all good things come to an end?
... kann, der kann. Am Freitag hat sich das kleine Grüppchen von noch verblieben zusammen das ehemalige deutsche Gefängnis von Qingdao angeguckt, aus Zeiten, als Deutschland noch, wenn ich mich nicht irre für 17 Jahre, Kolonialmacht in der Stadt war. In ...