Foreign Trade Centre Fuzhou

... seen the size of these chillis, they were like small hands.. Then we went to play some pool, again he won, and I lost 20RNB.

We are hoping that the police give us our passports back before the break as we want to go to xiamen, a little town about 3-4 hours away.

Generally the students at school are nice. The girls seem to have an obsession with me, and keep ...

... stole some dice from a bar!!!

The latter is my biggest achievement because ever since being back in the UK I had been looking for some dice, but couldn't find any! So, when I went to a bar that provided them for free to customers, I thought that they wouldn't miss one set.

We went to the book store yesterday and brought some books to learn Chinese. They are for 0-3 year olds with the pictures and the chinese word next to it. ****ing brilliant!!!

Fuzhou, Fujian, China mattstacey

... around an artificial lake. It was pretty awesome, despite the stares at the 'white' foreigners!! We found an 'all-you-can-eat' place for £4 per head... bargain!

Yesterday evening our employer took us out to a restaurant in which he did all the ordering, so I got to try Shark!!! It was different.... Some others tried scorpions, but I couldn't stomach it!
Then he took us to a ...

... together.

Things are incredibly cheap here - like 4 hours internet at the cafe costs less than 1.50GBP!!!! A bottel of water costs about 6p! Amazing.

The temperature today was 42 degrees, and believe it or not, it is unbareable!

The city is great because it is not very touristy, and it appears as though there are very few westerners. This is obviously a problem when trying to decifer the language, but when trying to get a true Chinese experience it is ...

John and Sebastian Cabot sailed back across the North Atlantic with bad news for their patron, King Henry Ⅶ of England.Instead of a short sea route to Japan and India, they had found only rocky, icy coasts.

　　It was as a mere afterthought that they mentioned that they had visited a place near what they called New Found ...

... better with regards to my mental health, but trust me, of the two kinds of trash, the Taiwanese soaps are definitely the trashier of the two. I say this with fondness in my heart. Although it is not at all to my credit, I am a fan. We headed back to Robyn's to watch Slumdog Millionaire and then get some sleep. The next day it was really rainy. I guess that's part of the reason why Fuzhou is so lush and green! Fortified with a breakfast of porridge, we braved the rain ...

... by themselves at any time without any hassles. There are no shady characters hanging out at some corners like they would in any given US city. A few beggars are here and there, but mostly they do not persist for long. People generally leave you alone, sometimes I feel almost invisible, but at the same time it is easy to find some friendly help when there is a question. For my own life, this safety would be my personal number one priority. I would rate this much higher than ...

Took a bus to Fuzhou today which was easy. My hotel in Quanzhou has a sister hotel in Fuzhou, and there is a door-to-door bus service. So no messing around with wrong bus stations today. Lovely 25 degrees here, blue skies, one month before Christmas. That's how it should be. Saw pictures of snow and ice in Germany on TV this morning, with many accidents reported. Good to be here. Fuzhou is yet another huge city. The book says 6.6 million people live here. It ...

Another hot and humid day in China. We caught the bus from Fuzhou ¸£ÖÝ to LangYu ÀÇÓì then took another bus to TangTao ̶ͷ in the morning. From there we walked to our village, Rainbow River village ϼ½­´å. Met up with a relative of ours (SiYung Uncle ˼Ó²®¸¸)had lunch with uncle, visited our old home, where we lived 19 years ago, and lastly visited grandpa and grandma's house (dad's side) on the other side of the town. Uncle told us that all ...

Our final few days in Yangshuo were spent soaking up the local culture...biking and swimming in the YuLong River, sampling the fare of the street vendors, and toasting our new friends before we headed for schools in every corner of the country. Two of the young guys were thrilled to be assigned to a school in the north, near the Mongolian border! Sunday brought a 5 a.m. wake-up ...