Nanguo Hotel Beijing

... qui sont sortis sans la carte de lhotel, les hutong sont peu a peu detruit pour etre remplace par des grattes-ciels qui rivalisent avec la tour de babel. Mais pas de danger de courroux divin, Dieu est aussi illegal en Chine.

Jai pas encore de photos mais ca viendra, je reste une semaine a Beijing, avant de me diriger vers le Nord-Est apprecier la douceur du debut dautomne dans les montagnes couvertes de gingseng.

Ah pis pour vous faire chier, mes amis ...

... his own. "It would require even more than the eye of ashoemaker to know one pair from the other."
"Master clerk," said a servant who entered with some papers. Theclerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him, heturned to look at the goloshes again, and now he was in greaterdoubt than ever as to whether the pair on the right or on the leftbelonged to him. "Those that are wet must be mine," thought he; but hethought wrong, it was just the reverse. The goloshes of ...

... no means a waterproof evidence that we were finally on the right track. At one point we saw a huge queue on one of the pavements. "What is it?" I asked. "People are buying train tickets," PingPing explained. "Here? And why not in the station?" I didn't get my head fully around the explanation he offered me. In any event, most of them youngsters, even if not all, were now queuing in an endless column in order to eventually enter a small door, which might have been something of a local ...

... opened to the public for around 60 years. Next up a Jade factory the largest in Beijing. Something like 60% of the worlds jade comes from China. They showed us how to tell real from fake and explained the different types. A little FYI not all jade is green. Next was lunch which was pretty good, actually best thing we have eaten here so far. Next was the Great Wall. All along Denise has promised us that we would take a ...

... Then, we found a franchise similar to Coldstone Creamery, called Sprinkles. Yum! We decided to utilize the safety that a taxi would offer, since we would have had to walk several blocks from the subway station to the hotel, and it was dark. However, the only place we could find taxis had a very, very long line, in which we waited for at least 45 minutes. Finally, we got a cab, and in spite of a ...

... box ticking scams. However, their inspectors cannot get a visa, and so cannot approve the factory and so the contract cannot be awarded. While Beijing may think the Olympics is worth all this, the fact is that the West cannot move Xmas to late February. Even if (and there are no guarantees) things return to normal in September, it will be too late for these firms who need to get gear on boats in October for the holidays. Now many are scrambling to find capacity in Vietnam ...

... I was a little shocked at first at the question, then I just thought it was funny and I wanted to see what would happen. Obviously the dog did not want to eat the Mentos, and the ladies were both surprised when she sniffed it and left it alone. I then reached into my bag and offered the dog a Ritz cracker, which she quickly ate and looked up at me for more. The ladies were surprised by that, but living with the food hound we have at home I knew the dog would like it :)

... bike was quite interesting, as it was quite a load to carry. I had a bit of momentum when I got going so I became a bit of a tank in manoeuvrability! I couldn't really stop in a hurry and when people meandered around in front of me I had to try and dodge them. It was the first time I actually found riding around quite frustrating, and "Shopping Trolley Syndrome" as I like to call it, made it so much worse. Shopping Trolley Syndrome, or STS, is ...

... Mao, which although useless (as they were dug too shallow to survive anything but the most superficial of bombings), would have been eerie to explore - however after much loss of shoe-leather, we finally concluded they must have been a victim of the rebuilding. Our book indicated that they could be found south of the city, just below the main street Qianmen Dong Dajie. The Hutongs Our hostel, Far East International, south of ...

... the new railway (and scenes of Tibet) were highlights of the holiday decorations.....see the train made of purple flowers. Also in the square were huge installations of the 5 mascots for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Cute as anything the mascots are available on all kinds of items in the official Beijing 2008 stores.....and in knockoffs from vendors at all the attractions in Beijing. The Square itself was, well it was a flat space ...