Central Guangzhou

... before we became too familiar. We recovered at a coffee bar and 7 eleven with a couple of slurpies and would be retail threapy but sarah packed too much stuff alreadly... WE all told her so. now were sucking on a sugar cane stick and she insists she feels alot better, but thats what she said this morning about the 'fresh' air, and it indeed is ''fresh''! pictures to come, wish sarah well, the poor little dumpling...

... ride to guilin today, the tourist mecca of zhong guo, thats china for all you non-chinga people. simon got his hair cut by the barber at our hostel, its looks great, he is a true asian now. they were pasting black stuff on the guy to my right and i asked for it too, so i now have black hair. simon has had lots of chances to practise his mandarin which has been exciting. yesterday we went for lunch at ...

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Enjoyed our meetings and colleagues. Went to dinner at a typical Guangdong/Canton restaurant. Menu was very creative. Plenty of exotics - baby pigeon, sting ray, fish guts, beetles, snakes, chicken feet. Was a bit naseous, but likely because of jet lag.

Arrive after 11 pm and my company screws up the pick-up. 20 guys trying to sell me sim-cards are chasing me around baggage claim because I'm clearly not moving out. After an hour and deciding I won't be picked up, I bee-line for the first cab in lineup. The ...

... to communicate than it was in Hong Kong.

After lunch, we went back to the reception to exchange money. This time being told we would need our passports, and so we had to walk all the way back to our room. We finally exchanged some money, and went to look around the shops (which were far out of our budgets).

By the time we finished window shopping, it was nearing 6, so we decided to have dinner. This time we tried the White Tiger Cafe, which was a ...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya, Oh what a life hey! It's kind of like walking around with ones head in the clouds! Or so it was today as I spent my day walking in what are known as the White Cloud Hills. So many people describe Guangzhou City as being fast, noisy and smelly along with many other words to give another the views of an ugly city. I have met several foreigners who all had been given the same ...

... taas katota ku mitakin mutanttia. Sit se oli hyva ku koko laiva matkan tuli odotus tilan telkkarista evakuointi patkaa... Turvallista matkaa vaan...Onneks en enaa jaksa jannittaa. "Just go with the flow"... Perille paastiin kuivin jaloin evakuointi videosta huolimatta. Matka kesti noin tunnin. Odottelimmen siina sataman pyskilla noin kymmenen minuuttia. Kun naytti silta etta enaa ei busseja tule. Alko vahan huolettamaan jo. Mut tulihan se meijan ...

... moving again. Kate and Melissa stayed shopping. We went into a clothes shop where there were about 3 customers (including Mel and I) and about 15 staff. Each staff member had an allocated areas and probably worked on commission. Mel looked at the same top 4 or 5 times. Each time we put it down on the table, it would be carefully folded - just in time for us to come back and look at it again. Once we had decided to purchase one of the two tops that Melissa liked (leaving one poor ...

Went to breakfast, again to the same bakery across the street. Headed down to the clinic, where Peter showed us how to finish off our positive molds by modification: adding and subtracting plaster from our cast. It was a fun, but very long and arduous process. Again, Peter took about 20 minutes to demonstrate and it took us two hours. We kept on adding and adding plaster to ours in certain portions, especially a large block at the end, to create more emphasis of ...