Fubangbinyuehotel Tianjin

... cheated.

On the other hand, when I’m not being hassled by fruit merchants, I’m usually being showered with compliments and praise about my Chinese and how great of a country the U.S. is by the taxi drivers. Although for me it’s a bit difficult to measure the sincerity of a complete stranger I like to be as optimistic as possible. Some foreigners get caught up in feeling like a celebrity everywhere they go. I like to call it “Golden ...

... to the Haihewaitan park at the end of the Haihe river. The park was a basically a series of modern art projects that cover most of China and was actually quite nice if nothing to see. We passed by the famous Orient Princess ship where they run KTV and walked down the river towards a 'Chaoyin temple' I had read about on the map. After rechecking the map and realizing that we had, in fact, been walking in the right direction, however there ...

A couple of months have past since our last little adventure and the throes of a day to day job have enthralled me for the moments. I do feel, however, the often little tug to wander streets I haven't walked and to places I have not yet gazed. And so, for this weekend, the two of us decided to go to the close coastal city of Tanggu to see there what it had to offer. Of ...

... mind, as it happens the bus finally stops... under the train station. Upadee doo, security doesn't care about the magic red notebook. I can't buy a ticket from this machine. O looky, I can't buy a ticket from that machine either. Visit the nice lady. Not a word passes, I got 6 yuan ready. Or maybe we say ni hao, I dunno, I hardly notice anymore. But I do notice the signs to Binhai town. And start the opposite way. Am I ...

... location, them with 'meter is broken, 25rmb?'. Of course, it only costs 10rmb to get back to her apartment from the bus station, but why should they assume we know that. Very annoying of course, we ended up taking one of the nu-rickshaws, with the motorcycle front.

That night we spent in the town center, searching for sushi - which we eventually found and was both delicious and too ...

October 1 I had the day off for the Celebration of Chinese National Day. It was the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. I used this time to explore more of Tianjin. I did a lot of walking and sweating but it was worth it. Enjoy the Photos.

Blake

National Day in China is celebrated on October 1st, and this year is a big one since it's the 60th anniversary of the PRC. Added with that, the fall festival fell close enough to national day this year that I ended up with 8 days off. 'Course, I had to work the Sunday before and the Saturday after ...

Pics from Culture Street and Dinner at a Hot Pot Restaurant.

HUO GUO mean "fire pot"-- The concept is easy you put seasoned water in a pot and boil it in the center of the table. Everyone around the table cooks food in it and eats. Kinda like a Fondue.

Our dinner was shrimp, beef, lamb, mushrooms, cabbage, octopus, squid, and noodles. To make the ...

... walks along the river, They also have one of them big ass ferris wheels like the london eye... but far cheaper. It was off out then with an English couple we met in the hostel that night for dinner and drinks and as they spoke chinese it made things rather easy. It was off then to the west station to catch our next train to Qingdao 730km away but only 5 hours on our lovely bullet train.... gift.

Yesterday I felt so much better. We went to bed early and woke up to snow! thore says it is the second time he's seen snow here and the first time it actually stuck. it made the city look almost pretty. we got going around 10 and ran a few errands. thore took me to this wonderful little french bakery where we bought loads of stuff for less than $8. at dean and deluca it would have set us back at least 25. We walked around, got some tea and then went to a couple ...