New Century Hotel Guangzhou

i knew it would happen, but only four days in and sarah has chinitis, all the smells, tastes and intruguing aspects of CHina have resulted in symptoms including vomiting in front of a chinese family in Qingping markets. we walked through a really really fascinating marketplace full of kittens, puppies, tortoitses, so many fish, salamanders, chip munks, every manner of claw, dried lizards, mushrooms, fungi and bunny ...

We caught a train from HK to Guangzhou on the 4th. Its a very hectic city. Lots of people, bikes, cars and buses. people riding bike on the road with ridiculous things tied to the back. we are staying on an island in the city named shamian. its very pretty, but a true tourist hub. our hostel is lovely. we thought that we were truely livinh the high life until we visited a hotel across the road that ...

... on the responsibilities of others with out knowing it. But with such a large population it is easy to replace the workers who have "failed" you and start the cycle over again. So the workers are all extremely afraid for their jobs all the time, but they will not do anything extra to make themselves more valuable, because no one told them too. Your position is determined by the wealth your family. So in the end their is no loyalty between the workers and the leaders ...

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 ...

... bylo vse. Nastesti mam od vecera susenou papaju, tak se s ni ted cpu. Rozhodli jsme, ze si dame masaz nohou, pak jsme to zmenili na celkovou masaz a bylo to dobry, sice jsem obcas upel hlavne u zad, ale za 200 Kc, nekup to. Navstivili jsme pekny obchod s cajem a hlavne nakoupili, tak se mate na co tesit. Zitra menim hotel, tak nevim jak to bude s pripojenim, takze zatim.

... then sitting in my hotel room. I am also much more comfortable than poor Luo Wei who is now on the way home to Kaifeng city to spend Spring Festival with her mother and some relations. As she was too busy to go to the station herself she asked one of her students to grab her a ticket when she got hers. Unfortunately for Luo Wei the student got her a ticket on a train beginning ...

... as opposed to their floor model. The one bag I did see that I liked, was a Celine bag. I didn't price it there, but when i looked in Hong Kong, they were selling it for HKD4500!!! We then got a cab and got back her place as soon as possible, so that I could pack and get to the train station with almost no time to spare! I took the 8:13pm train and arrived in Hong Kong less than 2 hours later. At that time of day, getting through ...

... and bad Travis selfishly took his to keep himself dry. We got the bus downtown and met, Sonny, the other CIW assistant at the KFC in downtown ZC. The KFCs are very nice-very upscale here. The McDonalds are 3 stories high but not as classy as KFC. We trundled off to the bank where Sonny graciously navigated the labyrinth of bureaucracy to open my account while I signed where she said. She also fussed about Travis and the umbrella-clearly leaving his aged mother with none was VERY BAD!!!

... it. Dylan: There was a lake there and we went rowing. We also went to the Peasant Institute where Mao Tse Tung taught peasants about revolution in 1925. Kit: He taught the peasants to rebel against the Emperor. Raymond's Travel Page