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Travel Blogs from Beijing
Living the American dream hahaha
... blog). Tracy says I have to give you a match report from the game between Beijing Cyclones and Shanghai Warriors. Well here goes. An hour before kick of the Warriors rolled out on to the pitch to warm up looking very professional and all kitted out in the same uniform. Very impressive..... Ten minutes before kick off the Cyclones roll on to the pitch and I mean roll. What a bunch of misfits not one in the same kit. They looked like ...
Feeling like another brick in the Great Wall
... would mean an extra flight, and a day less where we weren't travelling. This also meant that we could either spend 5 days in Shanghai, or split the time into a rushed visit between Shanghai and the Huangshou mountains. We decided to stick to Shanghai, as we'd be covering a lot of miles in the last few days of China. As we made these plans, the young whipper-snapper arrived looking pretty worse for wear and sat down with a bottle of water for a few minutes before heading back to ...
Eiszeit
Morgens um 6 Uhr verliessen wir das Flughafengebäude in Beijing und es schlug uns eine erbarmungslos klirrende Kälte entgegen – minus 10 Grad! Das war auf den ersten Schnauf etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, haben wir uns doch seit Monaten nicht mehr mit tiefwinterlichen Temperaturen konfrontiert gesehen.
Auf der Taxifahrt zu unserem Hotel wurde uns schnell bewusst, dass wir uns in einer ...
Accommodation Debacle
... hour delay as Sue the lady from another group who broke her ankle on the descent need a lift to Beijing. She was offered a ride in a car but she refused after a scare whilst being driven tot he hospital the day before. ,
Part way Stanley tells us that World Expeditions had forgotten to book rooms for us at our Beijinghotel and that we would be going to another hotel after first going back to the Mingri Wuzhou to get the ...
Hazy Days in Beijing
... it is very much a tourist attraction, and holds sunrise and sunset flag raisings/lowerings. We were there for the lowering and although the setting sun disappeared into the smoggy distance, we’re told that the lowering is timed to coincide exactly with it. This was a pretty cool sight to see, and the Chinese tourists (of which there were many) were particularly interested. Also, unlike North American flag ceremonies, where the flag gets folded, ...