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China Overview: Top Ten Things I Learned

A travel blog entry by lauraaradi

Ed booked us a 12-day tour of China, stopping in Beijing, Xi'an, and Shanghai. A private tour, five-star hotels—Ed's ideal method of travel.

I'll admit it was nice to sleep in a Western hotel at the end of the day, and the prices did not give me heart burn.

China is really different. Our …

Our new home - The Four Seasons Hotel!!!

A travel blog entry by tracy-andy-pez

... with last Saturday night for the Internations bowling. A good fun night as always, starting & finishing with beers & pizza at Frank's bar, there was a charity gig going on & it was full of bikers, a raffle, and four different bands which of course we danced to later, and got them singing random requests, such as Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil!!

Sunday I went to watch our friend Gina run in the Beijing half marathon. There was also the full ...

Hungover

A travel blog entry by hannah_leigh

Today has not been a very successful day... Far too hungover.. We have basically spent the day in bed.. We ventured out of the room for about half an hour but the toilet was my best friend! Leigh ventured out with his sunglasses on... He really looks like a thug!! We eventually felt better this evening which is good because we were booked onto the night tour. We visited the birds nest (the Olympic park) we went to ...

Little Dumplings!!!

A travel blog entry by tracy-andy-pez

... old quiz night - were joined by friends Tracey, and Charlie & Dan - we still managed to do really badly, got off to a good start though by winning the first round, all downhill after that though!! We couldn't even blame it on there just being 2 of us this time!!

A chilled out Thurs evening, followed by Friday night out for an Internations party across town in Gulou, a new area to us which was good seeing somewhere else. Although the subway journey ...

Beijing - Everything on a grand scale

A travel blog entry by missfit

... stage it'll come down to a critical mass that will bring about change in that area. Anyway, some of these things still remind you that only 50 years ago, China was still pretty much an agrarian society. Its an amazing feat to drag this most populous nation kicking and screaming into the 21st century, making it, arguably, the leader of the (un) free world. Little wonder they worship Mao, literally. Who cares about the 70 million or more that had to pay the ...

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