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There's No Place Like Home
... 2. Four burner stove and oven. Here I have a hot plate, toaster oven, and microwave, which is totally doable, but it took some getting used to. I’ve finally gotten back into the groove of cooking in China. Tonight my apartment smells like garlic and olive oil; which in my world means home and Stephen. It makes me wonder if subconsciously I haven’t cooked like I used to since Stephen passed away ...
Indulging in Shanghai
... and not go crazy from the stench of the bathroom and the dirty floors they can't sit on, they smoke. Being sick, the nicotine wasn't the best option, and at one point I even started blowing out brown snot!
Followed by the brown snot incident, a family of standing passengers decided to steal the seat of the passenger sitting across from me. They had a 3 year old with no pants or diaper on - completely bare. And as they continued ...
Back in Shanghai
... a bubbling water fountain and clumps of bamboo. Two beautifully dressed young women waited on us. The coffee was perfect and we indulged in ‘home made chocolate’ which was sensational. I could not understand why we were the only people there. But then it was barely 9;30 am, still early by Shanghai standards!
We continued down Julu Rd. where concrete, stone or bamboo walls topped by broken glass ...
Xi'an - Dec 19-21
... t been feeling so hot since we left Dengfeng so unfortunately a freshly squeezed pomegranate/sugar cane juice was as adventurous as I got :( kind of boring but tasted amazing!
On Dec 20th, our last day in Xi'an, we went to see the Terrcotta Warriors and they were incredible! They were only discovered in 1974 by some local farmers who were drilling a well and found a piece of pottery. Little did they know ...
Late Nights and Great Sights
... the place, and arrived at the nick of time. The cathedral looked just as it did in my Shanghai self-guided tour app I downloaded to my ipod a few days before leaving for China. It centered itself between two large steeples and showed its medieval architecture prominently. As we had previously assumed, the entire mass was in Chinese, and with the exception of some monitors displaying English words at times, the English presence in the church was ...
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- Restaurant
- Business Services
- Fitness/Health center