New Century Hotel Lanzhou

So it seems like i've had to move....<br><br>I can't seem to log into blogger.com whether or not that is because of the information restrictions or not (i think it is...i am now in mainland china...) we'll all have to move! At some point i will set this up properly but for now i shall just carry on as if nothing has happened and worry about it when i'm settled....<br><br>Cheers for the comments guys! Good to know there are people reading the thing! 'not guilty' on the card cutter thingy ...

... Control System<br><br>1. Engine System <br><br>2. Theft Guard System <br><br>3. No key enter system, support serial and USB <br><br>4. Antiblock system <br><br>5. Safty airbag system ...

... it wasn't in their interest to name the culprits. This was exactly what happened before we referred the matter to the police. But like many official issues, events become incredibly protracted in foreign countries and the thieves were to rob me of almost two days of my time in Lhasa. I had to attend four different police stations, making statements in two of them and providing red index-finger prints (x 10) over a very lengthy 3-page Chinese-written 'thesis' in ...

... at a bar partying it up like everyone I know both here and back home but instead I chose to stay home and watch my little Peach while she slept some well deserved sleep. We could have gone out for a huge festive dinner but instead when Luo Wei woke half an hour ago I made us both a ...

... shane _______________________________________ __________ The soundtrack to this entry was both The Spermbirds 'Joe' And The MC5 'Live' _______________________________________ __________ PS: I would like to thank Facebook for a bumper crop of happy birthday wishes this year! Thank you everyone..I really do miss you all!

... of the walls takes approximately 3 hours. The landscaped park around the base of the exterior walls and moat also makes for a pleasant stroll and gives a different perspective on the battlements and towers. When Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), captured Huizhou, a hermit named Zhu Sheng admonished him that he should 'built high walls, store abundant food supplies ...

... the street food is starting to look good at this point) After dinner we went to a canal boat cruise. Suzhou is a city that has a working canal so we took a boat cruise. Once again this city is filled with neon. Some areas look like Times Square. As we took the cruise we were splashed by another boat and some people got drenched. (SUPER FUNNY) After the cruise we walked around in a shopping area. We went back to our hotel and oh **** what a piece of **** hotel. Erika took a ...

... Xian, where fifteen people died, we were told not to use elevators if we experienced an aftershock. Last night in Chongquing, where many of the injured were brought because of its proximity to the epicenter, the sadness was palpable. These people are not feeling like "others" to us anymore. The roughly 90,000 people who are confirmed dead or missing and the 15 million who have been displaced lived near these areas ...

... The streets were bustling and noodles were flying everywhere. When we got off the bus and walked out of the bus station in search of something to eat a young kid, dirty as Oliver Twist came running over and tried to grab the plastic bottle out of Judys hand, still full! For those of you whom haven't been here, believe me, it is hard to find plastic, card board, glass, paper etc in any form on the streets ...

... at to cross the river and head up hill on a brick path through a cutting in a 15-metre high clay bank. It seemed even hotter here than the last place, and we struggled from one "shade" patch to the next, up onto a flat, oval area about a km long, on which could be seen the remains of buildings cut from the clay back in the Han Dynasty period. You had to use a fair bit of imagination on the closer ruins, and most were out of bounds for safety reasons, but ...