Marco Polo Hotel Xiamen

... I went round looking for internet but could not find any and the hotel were charging an arm and a leg so this has had to wait 24 hours - but that's another story.

In the morning we wander around the streets and take in the ambience. There is a Chinese residential area as well as the tourist area, although apparently it is hugely expensive to live here. It sounds like a small flat costs well over 100,000 pounds in this coastal part of China and it's hard to imagine how most ...

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hi all

i am in a place called xiamen now which took 24 houres to get hear it was a realy good train everybody was super nice and some people spook english i got chating to an english teacher that wonted me to marry her daughter which was also on the train lol

anyways i arived in xiaman and the first thing i notested that the temputure had risen to 40 ...

... tactic. But we are reluctant to leave badminton lessons with Yan Yan and Liu Yong, though. And delicious dinner with Lynn and her grandmother; Stephen's, "It's a pity," and Sakoura's smile. This afternoon, as usual, I share the streets with children tended by their grandparents. This is not a foreign concept. In Canada, my grandmother took care of me, too, while my parents worked. Here on the crowded sidewalk, one grandmother ...

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I knew before that China is not a tropical country but it got a little too cold for me. I was having breakfast in my lovely Hangzhou hostel, but everytime someone opened the door, a cold gust of wind was blowing in, giving me a chill down to the bone. The forecast didn't promise anything good either. Daytime temperatures were predicted just above the single digits, and nighttime much colder, and the night falls early in eastern China. The wind made it all even more obvious ...

... is quite modern, but the old main street of Zhongshan Lu has many of the old colonial buildings still there (reminding me a bit of Auckland), and there are some cool little narrow alleys off to either side. At night it all changes character as everyone comes out for shopping after work - night seems like the busiest time in the central city! Our second day was sunny, so we took a bus to the south coast and walked along the shore ...

... and I chatted about my plan for the next couple of days and I tried to gently imply that I wanted to go see the earth dwellings alone, as my friend was starting to force himself on me as a guide and helper. I became uncomfortable listening to my friend and his father and his friends talk in the unintelligible dialect. I asked told my friend that I was tired and he took me upstairs to go to sleep. Tomorrow will be here all too soon and I really should get some rest.