Super 8 (Jiaozhou Xin Hui Xin Du)

... views are spectacular, and somehow it also has the glimse of lifestyle from a big city. Thus to say, mixture of everything.

Definitely worth the visit, and the coldness...


Hightlights of visits:
. The Protestant Church(基督教堂 )
. Jiaozhou Governor's Hall (提督府), office building of former German governors [Gouverneurspalast] and former municipal government

... down the hills, we finally settled on a slightly outward hill...it's only 3:30pm and the sun is already preparing for the day-off......Point to note for the sunset fans, you gotta start early for that in Qing Dao. By 4:30pm the whole sunset process is done and we went for some city sightseeing, christmas trees and decos are all around already, nice lights there.

... 26041;知郤原來 ; / 不必盼蓬萊 ; / 已是埋藏心 ;內 / 蓬萊就是愛 ;
Listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9TxBTq -wQ


Highlights of visit:
. Penglai Tourism-Vacation Area (蓬莱旅游ॷ 0;假区)
. Penglai ge (蓬莱阁)
. The Eight Immortals (八仙)

Occupied by Germans during WWII, beers have been a signature beverages of Qing Dao thereafter. Today we went to the Beer museum, seeing the 100 years of this well-known chinese beer. Enormous varieties, you name it, they have it. Awesome library of information!

It's also linking to the production packing session as demo, cans and bottles are all in ...

We started with city tours to tower, St.Michael's Cathedral.

Finally, we setup our tripods in Zhan Qiao (Pier, 栈桥), at the temperature of -6 degrees for night scenes capture.....runny noses, frozen hands, shaky lens...

Highlights of the day:
. Ba Da Guan (Eight Great Passes, 八大关), the older area of town with some surviving German and Japanese architecture ...

... nearby street markets. Super cold on the street!

Highlight of the day:
. Signal Hill (信号山) , Astronomical Observatory Hill (观象山)
. Lao Shan(Mount Lao, 崂山), 40 km east of Qingdao, the most famous Taoist mountain with Taoist retreat - Great Purity Palace (太清宫)

... view is so nice, so wide, magnificent.

At night we hopped out for seafood dinner at the Beer street.
Draft Qing Dao Beer is $30 per jar, we didn't try the $80 ones, wonder how is it tasted? The $30 is quite refreshing and easy to drink, we definitely liked it!

... des petites bebes crevettes secs avec des gros yeux. Donc tu te fais regarder quand tu les manges.

Un seul hic a mon merveilleux matin, ya comme eu une procession funeraire qui est passee. Et croyez moi, ca passe pas silencieusement comme des protestants ou saouls comme des Irlandais catholiques. Ca gueule. En titi. Du genre gueuler a faire chier dans leur culotte les touristes qui mangent de la soupe tranquille.

J'ai ...

... Je vais bientot commencer a mattaquer aux fruits de mers ici, qui font legions.

Marcaliss, apporte ton Epipen. Et un drapeau Quebecois, jen veux un. Un petit.

J'ai toujours pas trouve de gens du pays ici, mais une Belge se matin, qui semblait a l'article du suicide. J'imagine que je fais toujours pas l'effet desire sur les Europeenes, au grand bonheur de ma petite pornstar a la maison.

Aventure de la journee d'hier :

Qingdao, Shandong, China feilipu

... it come to this?

When I shut my eyes, I can picture the blaze of Perth's sharp blue skies in my mind, white sand, surf and the crisp scent of gum trees that is my home. Clean. Unpoisoned. I think of the ordinary people in the middle of Shandong who have no experience of this kind of land, never will and did not create this pollution through which they must wade. Nor will they reap the benefits, which will most likely go to ...