Laizhou Bay Hotel
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Grapes are Not Just for Wine Making
... grapes approximately 12” long.
For lunch our host family served us under a canopy of grape vines. We ate freshly cooked rabbit, chicken or fish; served with typical side dishes of cooked veggies, egg soup, cooked mushrooms and fermented grape juice (sorry – no wine made here).
Hiking farther up and out of our host area we enjoyed a small temple structure where we could sit and enjoy the view. Grapes rows filled all the surrounding ...
Chinese Zoos & Aquariums
... have three dimensions they can roam in, so they seemed a lot happier. There was a really cool room where the walls were about 10-15 ft tall, and basically 360 degrees around you. The fish, stingrays, turtles, etc. swam around and around in circles, apparently very content. It was very soothing to be surrounded by swimming creatures, for some reason.
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The last stop in China
... fish and molluscs everywhere. Skewers of squid and shrimps could be bought on street corners, and butterflied fish of all descriptions would hang from windowsills drying in the early winter sunshine. You could even go into a sweet shop and right next to the pick 'n' mix section would be a selection of dried crustaceans to throw into your bag of pear drops if you so wished. Maybe if Woolworths had followed suit they wouldn't have gone under.
Once at ...
Qing Dao - Protestant Church & German Consulate
... views are spectacular, and somehow it also has the glimse of lifestyle from a big city. Thus to say, mixture of everything.
Definitely worth the visit, and the coldness...
Hightlights of visits:
. The Protestant Church(基督教堂 )
. Jiaozhou Governor's Hall (提督府), office building of former German governors [Gouverneurspalast] and former municipal government ...
Laizhou - Real China Immersion
... Laizhou in the hotel restaurant. They ordered a wide variety of things. Some cold salads of seaweed and peppers (Didn't care for that one) There was also a salad of peanuts, peppers, and onions in a sweet type vinegar. I though they were like garbanzo beans until I bit into one and realized it was a peanut. That was good. There were also fried and boiled dumplings with vegetables and meat in them. They were also very good. The best ...
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