Rujia Hotel
Travel Blogs from Heshan
Guangzhou
... Kung Pow Chicken (ph.sp). No joy so we ripped out the trusty iPhone with the translation app and showed them. They understood. "E ger" we said. Success! We loved this dish. We first had it in Jiuzhaigou when Jane ordered it at the Sheraton. It is a spicy dish, being from Sichuan, the spice capital, and has chicken of course but also peanuts, carrot, bok choy and bags of flavour. Resorting to the Mandarin notes we had diligently taken when being taught by Greg, we ...
It's crazy what one heater can do for you....
... losing the warm spot in my bed. I also can't remember the last time my toes weren't ice cold. I've been wearing 3 layers of socks and still my toes will be icicles. Tonight is the first night in a very long time that I feel normal. For the past few weeks I've basically been hiding under my blankets at all times which has resulted in my feeling really lonely and depressed. But today I told myself ...
China For The Day
Other than the trip being long, it wasn't all that bad. The airbus A380 was pretty sick. We arrived the morning of the 20th in Guangzhou and the airline put us up in a hotel in the heart of the market district for the day to clean up. We explored the streets for a few hours then headed to the mountains that the city surrounds. We took a 4 hour hike to the summit and back ...
Feeding MY ZODIAC
... happen, I would be like a flickering candle in the dark. But as soon as I regain my sense of security, my confidence also returns and this enables me to set out once more.
12 hours in Guangzhou
... The thing is, it was still before 8 in the morning so even though there were shops around, absolutely nothing was open. We were getting a bit weary when we found a nice cafe that had free wifi, cafe latte and a decent view of the street below us. What more could we ask for? We sat and recharged our batteries for more than an hour while we watched people scurrying along heading for work. Access to wifi meant access to maps. I worked out that we were only a ten minute ...