Joyful Sea Hotel Guangzhou

... 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...

... ride to guilin today, the tourist mecca of zhong guo, thats china for all you non-chinga people. simon got his hair cut by the barber at our hostel, its looks great, he is a true asian now. they were pasting black stuff on the guy to my right and i asked for it too, so i now have black hair. simon has had lots of chances to practise his mandarin which has been exciting. yesterday we went for lunch at ...

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 ...

... Irish notes are 'promissory notes' (defined as legal currency), essentially cheques made out from the bank to 'the bearer', as the wording on each note says. They have a similar legal standing to cheques or debit cards, in that their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved, although Scots law requires any reasonable offer for settlement of a debt to be accepted.

... taxi ride almost made me give up the Winter Bears N Noodles Passport Adventure and simply use my current passport to head back to the safety of my motherland. With legs that were still trembling I took the lift to the twelfth floor and smiled as I saw the sign. Such a happy smile it was as it was like being home again I almost expected the girl at the front desk to welcome me with an ice cold beer. But this ...

... Ghanaians living in China have lost total trust for the Ghana consulate in the Chinese capital Beijing. There is one guy working in the Ghana consulate in Beijing who for the past years is causing lots of problems for Ghanaians here in China. He runs the consulate like his own business and Kojo it's really pathetic .We know that consulates are in charge of its citizens but not the Ghana consulate in China. The Chinese immigration and the Chinese people on the ...

... oldest and largest folding screen used in China is also here, as are two of the world's oldest bronze patterns for textile stamping. (http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attrac tion/guangdong/guangz hou/nanyue_king.htm) That evening, we decided to try a German restaurant, 1920 is the name, right on the Pearl River-it was great! We had nice sandwiches and fries and some good beer but the best was the dessert-real cheesecake. I thought ...

... med lotus fødder (bundne fødder), hun gik støttet af sin søn og man kunne se på hendes ansigt hvordan hvert skridt var en smerte. Det overraskede mig lidt at man stadig kan se dette her i Kina, det er jo meget længe siden at det blev forbudt, så hun må være meget gammel. Tilbage i Lijiang skulle jeg have ompakket min taske, da jeg havde haft nogle ting opmagasineret ved gæstehuset, da jeg ikke havde noget værelse, blev dette gjordt på gårdspladse, med mange kinesiske tilskuere ...