Dalian Leewan Hotel

... tortilla chips with the meal. The enchiladas were pretty good.<br><br>Now part of the reason I don't eat western food is the price. Let me give you an example. On my way home from school I have found two places where I especially like to eat. I can get a bowl of noodles in hot soup for 6 yuan. Or I can stop at the kiosk and get a serving of fried rice or fried noodles for 3 - 5 yuan. Remember 7 yuan = $1. My ...

... 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 ...

... I finally lost my cool and asked her that, seeing as I was in transit and boarding a frigging plane in 5 minutes, what on earth made her think I had time to go wandering about trying to find a flipping internet bar to write a sodding email, the reply for which I would not possibly receive in time to be of any use to either of us?! If she had no idea of what to do in this kind of situation, I would wait until I arrived in Dalian and then call to see if they still had a ...

... apparantley the tags - that's both of them - had come off). Before they could verify it was ours (despite the fact that it is bright yellow and has a photo of Gwen on the tag) they had to weigh the suitcase in Dalian to confim that the one still in Beijing was the correct weight. At this point I was starting to ...

... I was caught off guard. All he said was "relax, you must relax." I almost laughed, but did manage to relax.<br><br>Without a doubt, it was one of the most amazing massages I have ever had, head to toe.<br><br>Unbeknownst to me, Kirsty had called ahead and specifically requested one of the fellows who is particularly well skilled at targeting troubled areas, and is also blind. I felt guilty after when she told me, and ...

... ripped off like foreigners always are... bargain hard.<br><br>Finding the &#8216;mall&#8217; itself wasn&#8217;t too ************ce we went through the doors&#8212;it was like entering a giant, six storey flea market. We wandered, and wandered, and finally came across some stalls that offered clothing, but none had plain t-shirts. After what felt like hours, but was probably closer to one, we found a place that had a few options... We explained we wanted 15 black ...

... in that first class was the super smart student who always has all the right answers in class. He was so dejected by not having all the rules, and not succeeding like some of the other students, but it was fun to tease and use him as an example of the many proud people who were left to fend for their lives in any way they could. <br><br>I think it was a great lesson. And we successfully repeated it many more times throughout the day, and in other classes...<br><br>Ashley

... visitors, some who stayed for months. The royal compound, center of residence, culture, politics, and economy for China for 500 years. 10,000 Eunichs, several thousand concubines, officials, servants and the royal family, estimated 30,000 people at its ...

... into what may be occurring inside. Chinese, especially Dalian, lust for the modern. That means that buildings are cosmetically "improved" once the newness wears off, or even at openings when the building itself has other tenants. Some stores have changed their neon signs twice in the last 4 months. There are crews of steel workers, maybe 12 or 15 guys who go around and make up storefronts for the owners ...

We booked a photo shoot with a wedding photographer in Dalian because Sarah wanted to take some pictures on the beach and really liked how this guy's pictures looked on the web. We hopped onto a plane and got there in 2 hours. The day we arrived it was pretty cloudy but it cleared up as the day progressed. We were hoping the day after (our photo shoot) would be the same. We had all day to spend sight-seeing in Dalian the day we arrived so ...