Three Suns Hotel Huizhou

Today Qiqi went to visit a beach resort, actually a future beach resort since this place is not finished yet. Most of the condos have already been sold out, even though the place is not finished yet.

It was only about 80km from downtown shenzhen but it took about 3 hrs to get there by bus! The road system is not yet built up in this area, so travel take a much longer time than we are used to in the US.

... normal for this trip.

But before we left to come back, I noticed one of the tires was flat! So we had to find a local tire repair shop (see photos) and then begin our journey back.

The trip back took about 4hrs! due to the traffic and two accidents that we had to pass along the way.

But we arrived back safely, and have decided to return the rental car! it is still much easier to take taxi and public transportation than to try to drive on our own.

... angeschaut. Nett**weise wurden wir dort in die Mensa zum Mittagessen eingeladen, wobei die Mensa eine reiche Auswahl an gutem Essen hatte. So manche Mensa in Deutschland kann sich hi** eine Scheibe abschneiden.

Von Xiamen ging es im Nachtbus nach Shenzen, das sich dadurch auszeichnet, dass es nah an d** Grenze zu Hong Kong liegt. Hong Kong hat mir am **sten Tag nicht so gefallen, ist eben eine Grossstadt mit entsprechendem La**m und ...

... and the locals are Hakka - named for their generosity and kind manners with guest. I was very surprised when I read for the first time on a street banner: "Foreigner or locals in Huizhou are all Huizhou citizens". Therea is a small group of foreigners here, however, this does not effect the way the locals welcome you anytime!

... Another part - the masochistic part - wishes to give Hong Kong at least a chance - one more full day and night - to see if my feelings will settle. It doesn't help that I didn't manage to find any of the vegetarian restaurants that I written down. Walking around in an unfamiliar location, trying to find something vaguely edible without sleep and at night is extremely challenging. One best left till Morning. I do wish to ...

I was in Shekou when it was just starting to bloom. When the road from Shekou to Shenzhen were just padi fields and duck farms. Now there is only highrise. The fisherman in the tale "could" be someone I met on my several trips there... He had seen it all. When Shekou* was just a sleepy fishing village seemingly untouched by time at the southern tip of the land mass ...

Flight OK but terminal 3 just chaotic. Seriously needs an update. Got train into Kowloon and then taxi to hotel. He couldn't get our cases in because he had an LPG tank in the boot so left them sticking our with the boot open Held by one elastic rope. I'm surprised Pat's smalls weren't scattered over Kowloon and ended up in the Ladies Market. Yes they do have a Ladies Market for Ladies. Hotel seems to have charged us for a third person in the ...

... I've never seen anything like it--the stairs were set into the mountain so that the edge of each stair appeared to point skyward. I think it was an optical illusion due to the angle, but maybe not. I couldn't get a photo through the windshield. Once we reached the top, we went to the Deco Cafe, a chi-chi kind of bar where all that stands between us and the Hong Kong Harbor below are its sheer glass walls ...

School's out for ever (yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy y!!!!!!!) and now I'm cooling my heels for two weeks, waiting to fly back to Australia. I would have gone travelling (I hear China has a couple of things worth taking a gander at, after all), but I've only got three weeks in Australia before I jet off to Beijing for a year to be a poor student studying Chinese, and I'm trying to economize. As if that wasn't scary enough I'll be arriving in the middle of Beijing winter (eek ...

... with their mistresses. My friend is convinced that my boss is gay, even though he is married and has a newborn son, and the Chinese teachers in my office sometimes remark with a little smile that the boss 'looks a bit like a girl'. But there is no gay subculture here - at least not a prominent or nation-wide one, and I have even heard that homosexuality is close to illegal in some parts of China, though I don't know for sure if this is true or not.