Dongquan Hotel Chengdu
No.259 North 2nd Section, 2nd Ring Road, Jinniu District Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Tandem Bikes and a Picnic in the Park
After a frustrating week trying to get time off to travel (as I had no lessons to teach) and the school refusing it was so good to have a fun weekend. I was invited to go bike riding in a park with teachers from school and their children. The past few weeks had terrible weather: freezing, cloudy and polluted. But on that Saturday the sun came out and I actually felt like I was out of the city. The park was pretty much a bike path ...
Jin Jiang, Chengdu - My Home
... I am often limited by my Mandarin reading skills – so instead I pick a random dish each time, or I see someone eating something and ask for that. It hasn’t ended too badly yet.
In terms of going out, just like food, there are so many bars. We mainly head to the Bar Street by the river which is 3kms away, or the night clubs which are just around the corner from the bar street. The bar street is literally a long street with at ...
Marc DJ'ing at CC Club, Lan Kwai Fong, Chengdu
... before and had to go along to the club at 4.30 to do a soundcheck and played for the manager who loved it – he was booked in for 11pm that night woo hoo.
So dressed a bit better we headed along for 10pm – the place was already packed – we were given our table (turns out there is no bar its all table service) and more bottles of whisky and the fancy fruit bowl with fresh nice fruit in it. We got chatting to one of the english guys that was ...
Changing Faces and Blowing Fire
... from Vivi and she said she was going to go to the bus station and ask for a refund on our tickets to Cherry Park. It was just a few RMB and it would cost more than the tickets in Taxi fares, so I told her to forget it. We arranged to meet at 9:00 AM and to go to Peter's for a Western Brunch. They tried real hard and did a passable job, but the waffles were 'extra crispy’, like KFC. But it’s amazing what a little ...
Oh How The Time Flies
... season!" Now I'm thinking "****, I gotta get some fat back on me or I'm going to look like skeletor!" As of today I am on the reverse China diet: getting as close to finishing my meals as possible and having an extra meal around 10 or 11 p.m. plus eating snacks throughout the day. I'm going to hold off on running for a few days as well but hopefully chowing down a little more will be all I need to change :)
Well that's all for now, my friend Winnie is here!
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