InterContinental Chongqing

Elise recovered while on the boat. She was back to herself by the end. We were quite relieved. That bit of R&R was what she needed. However, Henry either got what she had or caught a different bug, because he ended up having diarrhea the entire time we were on the boat. (Too much information probably.) But that is what happens on trips overseas. Everyone else was fine.

We celebrated Charlie's birthday a day early ...

... eager to learn a little more about how the tonal system functions and to see the elegant written characters broken down into easy steps. The language fascinates me but a few weeks is too little to attempt any serious learning, so I continue to operate by pointing to lines in a phrase book!

Anyway, enough of life in the city, I have to go as I have a boat to catch... and hopefully the next couple of days will provide a little more fresh air!

... person
that saw them and claimed them horrible. Maybe, since some scientists
point that no ghosts exist, no one has ever witnessed ghosts. When an
individual suddenly breaks some rules, with gossip of breaking rules,
he will meet his highest glory. Yet another, how many of us can declare
that we don’t feel envious, at the moment heard someone’s innovation
has ultimately leaded to his achievement; how ...

... prodded by
the doctor and radiologist who were both less than gentle. Tomic had
returned to the group to take them to dinner so when the x-ray was
finally ready we were on our own. We found our way back to the doctors
office but he didn’t speak a word of English and we couldn’t understand
whether he was saying it was broken or not. We found a little phrase
book and the only vaguely helpful word we could find was ‘ ...

... with incomplete episode of Doreamon when I first stepped in primary
school; Yoshito Usui forever postponed subsequent issue of Nowara
Shnnosuke while I am being pushing to the adult world. Walt Disney has
opened a 3-year-old girl’s mind, so that she tentatively began to
explore this world and communicate with every flower, tree, butterfly
and small animal. She lived in harmony with nature, deeply believing
that love is the ultimate theme of the ...

... 8am), but it is intermingled with horking and the smell has changed to cigarette smoke. There are a lot of Chickadees which I find comforting. When I first awoke I saw a chickadee flying in the same direction as us with its flap and coast sort of flight pattern. It cruised on past us, which tells you that we are travelling at a leisurely pace. It is just right to see things out the window and be able to dash to get the camera in time for a photo. The other ...

... upstream from Yichang to Chongqing. I decided to choose this section as it pasted though the Three Gorses and few riverine panoramas inspire such awe as this. The vast rock chasms that have been sculpted over aeon's by the flow of this huge river. I started the trip near the controversial three gorges dam, China's biggest engineering project since the Great Wall. It was completed a couple of years ago and will eventually back the river up for 550km, flood an ...

Hi everyone. An of update from across the pond. We have settled into the chinese way of life a bit more and the people seem to be more helpful, but still pretty infiriating at times! We have had a pretty up and down time from guangzhou, for the first 5 days or so it was really good but then we both got ill with a flu/stomach bug kind of thing which meant we felt like **** all the time and couldnt really see much but now we have recovered and are firing on all cylinders again, well ...

... adventures you might get some congeal duck blood, cow stomach, and the locals favorite, chickens feet. When I walk by most Hotpot restaurants around town most of the men have their shirts half or all the way off and sometimes one of them will be standing on the sidewalk outside with a look in his eyes that his mouth quite possibly might be on fire. My favorite food so far is a grill I found one rainy night. It is family owned like ...

... shove on mine, sending one of the men flying back into his two friends. The next few moments w**e a f**al blur, and for a short time I laudably held my own. But six bare fists can infallibly do more damage than two. The tough guys retreated into the night, leaving me breathless and batt**ed. The police arrived th**eaft** and took me to the Public Security Bureau to get a statement. It was det**mined that the hotel security guards failed to s**ve their purpose ...