Dong'An Hostel Beijing

... Chuck Norris, Bob Morane, Spiderman et Chuck Norris (OUI DEUX FOIS).

Ce que je mapprete a raconter est completement decousu, mais tous ces choses sont, jusqua preuve du contraire, vraies.

1- Il a des dents en or
2- Il a 76 ans
3- Il sest marie 3 fois, et un de ces mariages a genere une... lesbienne
4- Il est docteur en biologie
5- Il a fait des tests sur le LSD dans les annes 60, et a deja acheter 1 gramme de LSD. Faite ...

... poured out into another spotlessly clean and only slightly more-pretty-than-usual station. It was dark when we came up from underground and after walking a few minutes and admiring the awesome skillz of the minikite flyers/hawkers, we spotted the magnificent Water Cube. WOAH. The surface IS bubbly!!! The area around it, the subway and the Bird's Nest is all paved, pedestrianised, well lit and guarded by army, police, security and slightly scary looking people in ...

... lake in the center. There is almost a land bridge that goes across the lake the long way. There are a couple of islands out in the middle of it, and there are bridges that lead to those. There are historical buildiings scattered around the area. Epress Dowager, among others, lived at the palace. We walked from the main entry point to the island and back, and then we just started walking around the lake. It took several hours to get around the ...

... mistakes continuously... dropping things or coming in at the wrong time happened quite frequently... well... maybe we just got into a second rate show... As soon as we got back to the hostel we had to run all the way up to the highest floor cause there was a firework show for the and of Paralympics. It was a good ending of our first day in China. Despite cab scam, jet lag, and so so acrobatic scam... I was in China and I enjoyed it 100%.

... the final women's gymnastics qualifying session. I saw teams from France and Brazil, and two mixed groups of individual competitors from various countries. I've seen elite international gymnastics competitions before, but it was my first time seeing Olympic gymnastics! Unfortunately I was so tired from the flight over, I was almost ...

... was supervising and would interrupt if I deviated from what she wanted. It wasn't until the afternoon though when all hell broke loose. I only had three girls in my class, and one of them decided she just didn't want to be there and would rather make my life miserable than pay attention. She refused to stop speaking Chinese, pretended she didn't understand when I reprimanded her, and made fun of the way I look. I should have thrown her out of the class, but I was ...

... in starbucks someone lit a whole bunch of firecrackers, that lasted about 3 minutes. It was very loud and about 2 feet outside the door. When that finished, we exited. We walked the main streets back to our little area where everyone in sight was lighting fireworks. Some were very big, like ones they use at the stampede. It was like being in a war zone, running for safety at times. We ...

... were in it for and come time for the hard sell we didn't mind forking over some measly yuan for a book and a 'I Climbed The Great Wall' t-shirt. The journey took us exactly 3 hours and at the end you could travel down the mountain towards the meeting place on a flying fox. It looked a spectacular ride through the river gorge but we opted for the more sedate walk down. Meeting up with driver we fanged it back to Beijing, passing the smouldering wreck of a car involved in a high speed accident!

... written down in characters. The buses would be great, but the bus map is in Chinese and incomprehensible, so we have to ask our hostel people which bus to take to every single location. But it's an exciting city, despite all the annoyances, with a lot of variety and things to see. I still feel like I've just arrived! Later: just added a bunch of photos from Nagano onwards. Hope you enjoy! Sorry there are so many of the Great Wall :)

... Also on this day we made a morning visit to the cloisine factory. We have done a lot of factory tours of all qualities, this one was well done....there actually was some learning to be done before we hit the huge gift shop. One of the most interesting parts was seeing the workers form the "wire" that will be glued to the copper base and filled with the liquid mineral (glass?).With a paper pattern, a ribbon 10 wires wide ...