Cairnhill Tianjin

... cheated.

On the other hand, when I’m not being hassled by fruit merchants, I’m usually being showered with compliments and praise about my Chinese and how great of a country the U.S. is by the taxi drivers. Although for me it’s a bit difficult to measure the sincerity of a complete stranger I like to be as optimistic as possible. Some foreigners get caught up in feeling like a celebrity everywhere they go. I like to call it “Golden ...

... to the Haihewaitan park at the end of the Haihe river. The park was a basically a series of modern art projects that cover most of China and was actually quite nice if nothing to see. We passed by the famous Orient Princess ship where they run KTV and walked down the river towards a 'Chaoyin temple' I had read about on the map. After rechecking the map and realizing that we had, in fact, been walking in the right direction, however there ...

... between the last and current posts I have had plenty of travels within the city and taken many pictures, I'll add only a few here of the area of the city close to the river.

With the passing of time, the gilding wears off and the truth of things come forth, but, as I've said before, I feel this city is close to me and I am connected to it - at least as much as ...

... see. I know Nanjing, nothing new to see. I don't know anything North. A river... is that the river? Many neighborhoods, mostly like mine, occasionally nicer occasionally not so. Twist and turn, North, East, North... wha? Lost again. Well das goog suggested it's be 7 clicks, assuming a bus can do at least 14/hr I won't panic for half an hour. No I'm looking for ZhongShanMen or Anr (thingy that looks like a pagoda... are you ...

Early on the day of the 7th, we went to the main intersection close-by with all our things to grab the long distance bus to Tianjin city. The drive was long and more or less uneventful - the drivers played a couple Jackie Chan movies and a couple Jet Li movies to keep us occupied.

We were, as expected, molested upon our arrival at the bus station. Many cries of 'taxi', us responding with ...

October 1 I had the day off for the Celebration of Chinese National Day. It was the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. I used this time to explore more of Tianjin. I did a lot of walking and sweating but it was worth it. Enjoy the Photos.

Blake

... time off so it's not really that much time off, but great for a trip.

For this trip I traveled to Chengde county to stay with my gal's parents and see the mountain's of China.

Wednesday night after work I took the bus out to Tianjin city and we went out to dinner and packed for the trip.

... these 2 guys came to our table and spun the noodles in the air to stretch the dough and then they put them in your pot. It was pretty cool. The pics from dinner only include about half the group cause some ditched out because of the rain and they had to ride their bicycles home.

And yes we had a private room at no extra cost for dinner.

Blake

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... kiz cok sasiriyor. Isminin Hayako oldugunu ogreniyorum. Girdigimiz ders sayisi arttikca Korelilerle de yari-Ingilizce yari Cince muhabbetimiz artiyor. Derste ogrendigimiz cesitli kaliplari hemen birbirimiz ustunde deniyoruz. Ornegin derste randevu vermeyi ogrendikten hemen sonraki teneffus haftaya hemen hemen her gun baska bir yerde yemek yeme plani yaptik. Zaman ilerledikce siniftakilerle arkadasligimiz ilerledi. Benim oda arkadasim eve ciktigindan ben odada yalniz ...