Dalian Intl Airport Hotel

... restaurant and I really couldn't decide what I wanted. Burger or Enchiladas and somehow I had a vision of Randy Hansen telling me to order the Enchiladas. So I did. On the menu it says (all in English of course) that I would get three chicken enchiladas served with rice, beans and tortilla chips. Count the chips in picture. Tortilla chips must be very valuable in China. In case you don't see it, I received three (3 ...

... a close look at the blue street sign and you will see the road to the seashore bathing place. That is the beach to you and me. I really can&#8217;t figure out why China doesn&#8217;t hire a few foreigners who can speak and read Chinese. Their full time job could be to translate for signs and advertisements. They seem to want to have things translated into English, so why not do it correctly? Oh well. I can&#8217;t do it so I will just take pictures of the signs that amuse me.<br><br>I ...

... the first item on the Dalian agenda was laundry: happily the chap at the laundrette near my hotel was happy to do my underwear too, after sprawling it all over the counter and personally counting the number of pairs, without embarrassment or hygiene concerns.<br><br>There isn't a tremendous amount to do in Dalian except go to the beach. So I went to the beach. My first choice turned out to be rather posh, evidently a favourite of high ...

... peevishly to call at 5:30pm. I explained that I would be on an airplane at that time and that was why I was calling then. She said to call a bit later. I started to get impatient and explained that a bit later I would still be on the airplane and that it was not possible to use cell phones on airplanes. She said to call the internet booking service to ask them what to do. I said I didn&#8217;t have their number which is why I had called the hotel. She said to email ...

... come up with the most accurate adjectives... like a little kids room, meets misprinted fabrics, meets dim lighting and an attempt at cozy. We stepped in and I howled with laughter.<br><br>On the two little cots that were side by side, lay little cotton pjs, which we changed into and waited for our masseuse. When the gentlemen came in, they introduced themselves and started by placing warm pillows on our stomachs and ...

... to look over all the 'opportunities' I was looking for something that would be small, and over quick&#8212;the festival itself was three weeks long.<br><br>One of the roles was to assist with the Opening Ceremony... which totally fit the bill. Small setup and only scheduled to last ten minutes. Well, I was kind of right.<br><br>The students who were responsible for this part were sweet, but extremely indecisive, which meant that we kept having meeting, after ...

... time. <br><br>But, to accurately demonstrate the era we were teaching&#8212;The Stock Market Crash of '29&#8212;suddenly the stocks started to drop, and of course the banker recalls all the loans... Still more frantic trading and the prices keep falling. The game ends when stocks are worthless, people have been cleaned out by the bank, and thus the discussion begins.<br><br>Who says that there is no capitalism in China? The students&#8217; awareness of the emotions ...

... China too has a great history of art and architecture. Their Iron and Bronze ages stimulated the world. The items from that period are stunning artisitc and techincal acheivements. But their best efforts such as the Forbidden City and the Qing Ming Shanghe Tu, the great scroll painting, just don't measure up to the Coloseum and ...

... about 7 AM, the stream goes across the bridge in the foreground and snakes its way through the bjuildings to reach the large port buildings with the arches to the left of the cranes. They straggle back into the evening. Those buildings look small, but they are massive. Probably 100 feet tall and easily that wide, several hundred feet long. From: http://www.runsky.com/en/2004-03/11/con tent_417452.htm With a ...

... up in kfc eating an early morning chicken burger and consulting the lonely planet guide on where to go...we found a hotel with little or no trouble and checked in. nothing fancy, but cheap. oh and no showers. this was to be the first day of me and al's four day no shower trip (which just ended about an hour ago in datong). so anyway back to haerbin, we did alot of walking and ice sculpture viewing. later that day after eating together, myself and al decided to trek across ...