Mini Guesthouse (Hongyuyuan) Pingyao

... and outside the wall (modern construction).

At some point, we discover that there is no direct overnight train from Pingyao to Shanghai; we have to purchase a local train ticket to the closest big city - Taiyuan - and catch the overnight train to Shanghai from there. Armed with a translation - courtesy of a very nice staff member in another hostel (ours was staffed by non-English speakers) - we make our way ...

... Qing Dynasty family, it contains over a thousand rooms (some in separate buildings, some not) and over a hundred courtyards. Well, we we ended up going today because, first off, why not, we are nearby and what else would we do, but also because our next destination was nearby, and a taxi to both was negligibly more (thanks to Carolynn, who bargains in Chinese better than anyone else I know) than just to the second site we visited. It's certainly ...

... outside a shop. He was just one of loads of dogs we had seen wandering the streets of town. Due to their condition some of them looked like they actually lived on the streets - we started to give them all names, we met Mucky, Stumpy, Dags, Patch, Socks, Dodge, Bubbles & Squeak, Scratch and Satan (he was a bit evil).
Monday 7th Sep - Pingyao
The weather was a bit better today so we went out early to make the best of it. After ...

... schon in einem Haus wohnen, das z. B. keine Heizung hat?

Morgen werden wir noch ein bisschen Pingyao anschauen und dann im Nachtzug nach Xi'an fahren, wo es die Terracotta-Armee zu bestaunen gibt. Vielleicht komme ich dazu dort nochmal was zu schreiben. Andernfalls wollen wir danach noch twas trekken und dann auf irgendwelchen Wegen nach Shanghai. Wie, d.h. mit welchen Zwischenstationen ist jedoch noch nicht klar.

Viele Gruesse
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... z'n vieren een hapje eten. Grappig ook dat wij, als we Nederlanders zien of horen, altijd onze mond houden. We willen best contact met mensen maken, maar niet perse met Nederlanders (in ieder geval niet OMDAT ze Nederlands zijn). Zij hebben dat ook en wat doen we? we spreken gewoon weer af haha. Ik heb vanavond gezegd dat ze morgen voor hun tourguide wel iets mee moeten nemen, want tja, lees het hoofdstuk "etiquette" en dan weet je dat ZE dat doen. Maar ja, die ...

... Yin family is a snob who harbours an evil scheme to e4mbe4zzle the Yin Family's wealth. He deliberately schemes to set up his illegitimate daughter, Jujube as the child bride of the retarded young master. But the beautiful and virtuous Jujube is deeply in love with the industrious and intelligent young farmhand and without her fathers approval, the pledge on ...

... there are four gates; east gate (to the east of the long alleyway), south gate (in the middle of the alleyway), west gate (to the southwest of the large side-yard) and north gateŁ¨to the northeast of the small side-yard). You will find a large number of items belonging to the Family Wang on display in the East Courtyard. Opposite to the west gate of East Courtyard is West Courtyard ...

... hour a mother shoves her child into me repeatedly only she finally squeezed him and herself past me despite that fact that I had been waiting. I don't know how she did this since I was in the front with only a gate in front of me and a row of 50 policemen, but she figured out how to beat me. I soon learned that I would not ...

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... There is also the first traces of Chinese script decorating the pots, all from 20000 years ago. Then we're off north of Xi'an to the Terracotta Warrior site. The Emperor then - 2000 BC - was the first to unite China. The site was discovered in 1974 by a farmer digging a well. He is now 85 and sits and signs the books about the warriors. There is a man made hill, in which they expect to find the tomb, but haven't ecavated ...