Junning Inn Hotel Beijing

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Je vais l'attendre a l'aeroport avec un panneau qui dit : Tabarnac je suis entoure de Chinois.

Paix et amour mes amours, mes plaisirs interdits, mes sourires en coin, celles qui ne m'ont pas encore aimer, et celle qui va en manger toute une a mon retour!

-Jacob

P.S. Bonne fete grand-mere. Je suis pas sur si tu lis ce blog, ou si tu as internet, ou si tu sais lire mais bonne fete! T'es vieille mais empeche toi pas de continuer de vieillir!

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I woke late on Tuesday and moped about the house for a while, wondering how I ever got myself into this situation and what on earth I thought I was doing. I checked my email and found one from Belinda Bi, my Yangtze Cruise organiser, telling me that the dock for my cruise departure had been changed at short notice. I had recieved it on Monday evening, when I was supposed to be on board. If there was some way I could work this to my advantage, it would be brilliant. Ying had ...

... s 30 times more than taking the bus. So we asked for bus directions from a woman who seemed to know what she was talking about. Key word: "seemed." We headed on the 330 out of the Summer Palace and I was pretty sure we turned in the wrong direction, but I was on the opposite side of the bus from Mary and Kristen and they were by the bus route sign, which I couldn't read from my vantage point.... Now when I saw mountains I knew we were in the ...

... til den næste åbne Ming-grav. Den kunne man jo desværre ikke komme ind i, men anlægget over jorden var til gengæld lidt større. På vej med bussen tilbage til byen stoppede vi ved den gamle indgangsvej til Ming-gravene, som har smukke dyrestatuer stående i hver side. Den resterende bustur føltes meget lang, da bussen var uopvarmet, og temperaturen var omkring frysepunktet, der var heller intet lys i bussen. 1 time føles som lang tid, når man skal sidde stille i ...

... growth rates. The Chinese can travel abroad, but how many abscond? Many local officials are corrupt and reviled, but if China's communist lead**s stood in free elections they would probably romp home. A recent survey for the Pew Research Centre showed that an astonishing 86 p** cent of Chinese are satisfied with their country's direction, putting China 25 points ahead of second-placed Australia in the global contentment rankings. The US came 20th out of ...

... have to say no thank you a million times to the thousand hawkers all along the route. these persistant little things are the only down side to the whole day. they will wait for you and walk with you, giving you all kinds of information and advice about the wall----always in an effort to sell something later. if you said "at the end", they would walk the whole 10k with you to be able to make the sale at the end. if you get rid of one, there will always be another. and if you ...

... caught myself. I was staring at them like the Chinese stare at foreigners. Intent, with a "What are you doing here?" expression, and continuing to stare even if they see you. Yea...how long have I been here? Peg informed us last Wednesday at the all TBC meeting that we have 78 days left. 78! That's it. I'm freaking out a little. Excited to go home, never wanting to leave here, so much left to do, ah! Take it day by day, right?

... oficiales con mil ojos (para que?) ensenando sus armas y gigantescas fotos de Mao y del actual dictador. Cuando regresamos a nuestro hotel por la tarde fue todo un alivio. Empujones, ruido, pitidos, gente escupiendo en absolutamente todos los sitios (a los chinos les han pedido dejar de escupir por la imagen que dan al mundo de cara a las olimpiadas...), trafico caotico, gente que te mira como si fueras un ...

... the famous duck..... ( Note: the whole Peking/Beijing is an english language translation thing more than anything else and the two "words" truly denote the same thing to a Chinese person. The name in Chinese is pronounced more like pay-cheeng and in 1949 during the revolution, the language was refined and the Beijing name adopted to reflect in english more closely to how it should be pronounced by us pronunciation challenged ...

... tavellers who have individually all added something to our Chinese experience. Whoever thought that one could spend so much time discussing food and poo with people you barely know, it seems these topics are the centre to all converstaion whilst travelling. Quote of the trip: 'You only live once, But if you live it right, Once is enough' Scribbled on a wall of a bar in Xian. Thinking of you all, all our love and kisses Char and Grant xx