Jiang Shan Yi Yuan Hotel Beijing

... before we became too familiar. We recovered at a coffee bar and 7 eleven with a couple of slurpies and would be retail threapy but sarah packed too much stuff alreadly... WE all told her so. now were sucking on a sugar cane stick and she insists she feels alot better, but thats what she said this morning about the 'fresh' air, and it indeed is ''fresh''! pictures to come, wish sarah well, the poor little dumpling...

... 2 pools, resturaunts, shops, bars, fish pond with massive goldfish and a waterfall! yesterday we visited yuexiu park, it was really beautiful. we had many asian admirers, all saying helloooooooooo and staring at us, especially the kids. we tried our first weird foods including eel rice and hawthorn ice blocks, sarah has been sick for a while but dont stress mum mums cause she is ship shape for our ...

Enjoyed our meetings and colleagues. Went to dinner at a typical Guangdong/Canton restaurant. Menu was very creative. Plenty of exotics - baby pigeon, sting ray, fish guts, beetles, snakes, chicken feet. Was a bit naseous, but likely because of jet lag.

Arrive after 11 pm and my company screws up the pick-up. 20 guys trying to sell me sim-cards are chasing me around baggage claim because I'm clearly not moving out. After an hour and deciding I won't be picked up, I bee-line for the first cab in lineup. The ...

Guangzhou was thankfully pretty uneventful except for this one little episode I thought I'd share...

Because of the 'swine flu' or H1N1 virus most of the border control areas scan your body as you walk through with your passport. I wouldn't have even noticed this had it not been for Ollie getting pulled aside for his very 'high temperature'. He was immediatley carted off while I had to go through immigration and wait for ...

... acrobatics, a contortionist, face changing (which was fantastic), and two blokes making train sounds using only their mouths (which was less good).

The rest of our time was dedicated whole-heartedly to China's biggest obsession - food. Whether it was Tao Tao whooping up a homemade feast or dinner in one of a handful of fantastic restaurants, we always left with food coming out of our ears (and no, I'm not referring to bad chopstick manipulation ...

... and undoubtedly speaking Chinese as a true Chinese - which she obviously was - I would bet that she was at home in both cultures. I knew from Internet that she was Emily. The only one Koryo Tours web site mentioned, but didn't show a photo of. I introduced myself and said I'd just come by to see where Koryo Tours was located, so I could know where to come tomorrow afternoon. Emily welcomed me and treated me to a short run-down of preliminaries regarding the trip once again. "You are ...

... mobil. A camera lenta s inflen els musculs dels nedadors i els velocistes, salten exquisists trossets de pollastre especiat i verdures d un wok, esquitxos de iogurt de fruites d algun paradis hygienic i passen cotxes de luxe per escenaris de llibertat. A camera rapida salten els herois del basquet i driblen els del futbol, avancen les expedicions a les vitamines de la llet o del xampu, i s expliquen acudits, histories d amor o promeses ...

... development struggles is state media, then where is the credibility? How can China hope to evoke understanding from the international community if it does not show its cards? Media and the government are trying to portray the "Xin Beijing," with xin meaning 'new' or 'civilized.' This goal is normal, natural, and worthy of international approval, but it must be realized by natural growth and progressive policies that ...

... here, would you please search an article named "Risky Geopolitical Game: Washington Plays 'Tibet Roulette' with China" in the site globalresearch. I am considering how many Tibetains outside China... They don't need to work? How can they follow the torch relay everywhere of the world? Who is behind them? All documents in this article answer my question: who is behind all these turmoil: the US. I have another link in French. However, I think most of you can't undertand french, so ...