I am definetely swollen on my right arm and decided that I needed to find a doctor. So I logged on and found our US embassy website. I read up on how to get there by subway. The only problem is that the subway that is within walking distance of here has not yet opened. It must be in the same area as the view of the Summer palace I do not have. S...

For the labor day holiday we had Thursday and Friday off. So I decided to take one final small trip as my time in China is running short. Friday I took the city kids camping on the Great Wall. Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasmeets china/sets/72157604875256334/ Basically my friend Dave who works at TBC knows a guys who lives in a small ...

There are some experiences of frustration that probably every expat is going through when living in a country where you don't understand a word, neither spoken nor written... I got home last night, a little bit drunk after a great dinner at Red Capital Club, in the hutong area, fantastic food and of course we had wine along. So I get into my apa...

El dia empezo con nosotros en el avion, al ir a contramano del horario, el tiempo pasaba el doble de rapido, fue como que salimos un lunes al mediodia y llegamos un martes a la noche. Pero en fin, habiamos llegado a China. Nos recibieron en el aeropuerto y nos llevaron hasta el Hotel Sheraton, en donde conocimos a nuestro guia: el gran Chow. Aun...

Vandaag de verboden stad bezocht. Immens complex. Heel mooi.

Just arrived after a 26 hours train ride! I am so glad we managed to put our hands on a few sudoku puzzles. It was great to kill time. Our last night in Hong Kong was a short one. One guy came in the hostel at about 3AM. He was very intoxicated. He shouted death threats to everybody and everything, even the walls. After a good 30 minutes of sayi...

It has been about 6 days and there is so much to write about. Lets start off with the flight. It wasn't to bad, I got my own row of two seats and tried to sleep. They were playing movies like failure to launch, so I was tempted to stay up and watch those, unfortunately I didn't. When I arrived in China, my friend John from GW was at the airport ...

We catch a flight to Beijing, which will be our final destination in China. We meet up with our guide, Wendy, and check into the Royal Presidential Hotel. They have given us a room with one bed so we are required to move to a new room where the internet is not working. After three hours of working on it, we are given free internet use for our st...

Hi Everyone: Sorry to disappoint. As you may or may not be able to tell, Lenora tried to download a shot of Hannah walking at the Jade Museum but it did not work out. Oh well. I promise that as soon as we get back to UBay we will send out some photos. Today was the day, Mark and Chels left for some shopping at the Silk Market and left me and the...

Another big surprise is that my wife's uncle paid the cop for the truck, and the cop actually did pay for it. We don't have any tie dows but the trucker has one big length of rope. So we get all 3 bikes tied down in the back of this truck and we're off for Erlenhot about 700 kilometers Southwest of us. There is nothing but Gobi desert between us...