Sanjin International Hotel Tai Taiyuan

... strange events as the bus driver began to drive again!

Five minutes up the road from where we had parked for the night, we turned into a bus station. Final destination! We were there in Taiyuan!! We had spent the night parked just metres from where we had wanted to be all along!! AArg!! Lost in translation!! The crew had a grand ole laugh at my confused and angry questioning!! Free nights accomodation all the same!

Love ye lots
Lucy and Adele! xxx

... br>Taiyuan mel byt pro nas jen prestupni stanice, ale nakonec jsme v nem stravili cele odpoledne. Taiyaun je vice nezmilionove mesto, prestavbu centra dokoncili pred 2 roky. Hlavni ulice je misty az dvanacti proudova dalnice. Nikde tu nikdy nedelaji nic maleho. Asi sem nejezdi moc turistu. Vsude na nas zirali a v obchodech se nas ani nesnazili moc natahnout, takze jsme tam vubec nesmlouvali. Zasli jsme na jidlo, do muzea umeni provnicie Shanxi a posedeli v mistnim parku.

... In some cases, taking part in a face-to-face class could be inconvenient due to scheduling, traffics, safety, etc, especially for those kids who intends to learn Chinese for Children. Online mandarin Chinese ...

... hotels in America, but I've never noticed, but in China they always have a phone next to the toilet, maybe people do some important business deals while they're doing their business, I don't know. .

We had about 10 minutes to get ready for dinner, we were meeting Mr. Bai, the CEO of the corporation Ms. Niu was working for. I'm not sure why he wanted to meet with us, but we headed down for dinner. When we got to dinner we were ...

We get dropped off at the Qingxu service station at 2:30am. There's a 24hr convenient store, we find a row of plastic seats and tries to make it until the sun comes up. We have been on the road nonstop for 18 hours, have to wait 7 more hours before we can find a bed.

... and we should consider paying 150 yuan for a english speaking guide. Since Mike had really wanted to come here and we had made the extra moves to get here we paid the extra for the guide. Our guide's english name was Lucy, a young woman who just graduated with a degree as a tour guide. She met us at the hotel which was good since we had to change buses along the way. The weather was forecast to rain an ...

... i kdyz jenom jednu). Pak jsme vyrazili na obhlidku. Taiyuan ma jenom jednu skutecnou zajimavost. Cca 60 km od mesta se nachazi dvorec rodiny Qiao, dum, ve kterem se tocil slavny film Vyveste cervene lucerny. Tam jsme jet proste museli. Na recepci nam poradili i spravne nadrazi, ze ktereho jet, nicmene jsme se rozhodli si vylet nechat az na dalsi den a idealne se do Taiyuanu vubec nevracet a jet rovnou do Pingyao. Pak jsme tak ruzne zabijeli cas, sli jsme navstivit ...

... behind these locks. The idea: one buys a lock, attaches it to one of the chains on the mountain, makes a wish and then throws the key over the mountain in hopes that the mountain will grant his/her wish. Struck down by our sadness over Seamus, it was almost a blessing that the mountain was giving us the option to do something sentimental for him, especially since we couldn't be there for him during his last few ...

... as well, two five a side games and one eleven a side, all being as equally entertaining as the other. One involving the goalkeeper i was playing for getting knocked out by an angry chinaman and a world record was set by myself by getting two yellow cards in the first 35 mins of a very important game(11 a side). We won 3-0 anyway so wasn`t too bad. i`m onto plan c now which i decided to write out and i have decided to change again!. I am now in a place called ...

... then this woman comes up to us and tells us that it is a performing arts school and would we like to see them practice so we say ofcourse and think we are going to see five of them, ohh no the entire school comes down to the practice area and performs just for the nine of us, it was awesome!!!! they are sort of like a drum line, but chinese, and they dance and do a bit of gymnastics, it was the coolest thing i have ever seen!!! they go all around asia and ...