Tiantian Yugang Hotel Weifang

... 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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantai

Sadly we didn't have enough time to scroll through the city too much. We caught the coach in the morning back to Qing Dao.

We checked in a chain hotel (again) quickly and off we go for lunch. Korean food, surprise! Superbly nice and CHEAP. Then we rushed off to hunt for the sunset! Scrolling along the seashore, walking bit up ...

... the leganary Eight Immortals crossed the sea. Thirdly, it's where 2 rivers joins.

For me, I knew it from a local singer-song-writer (Sam Hui) 's song apart from the above.
(Sorry it's only in cantonese lyrics)
何處覓" 028;萊
曲：許 ;冠傑　詞ᦂ 6;許冠傑/黎 444;得

心嚮 4448;蓬萊 / 想身處 ...

... belts and feeding through the machines. Minimal manpowers.

We spent pretty much the entire afternoon on the coach. A funny incident, as we are all getting into deep naps during the bus trip, suddenly I was woke up by intensive heat, like burning fire, really hot-like-hell, it's winter and I can't get rid of any more clothes from my body ...

... br>. The twin-spired St Michael's Cathedral, (天主教堂), one piece of the famous Neo-romanesque architecture in Qingdao, designed by German architect Alfred Fräbel, completed in 1934[9]
Flower-floor (花石楼), the place for previous German governors to fish, hunt or rest.
. Xiao Yu Shan (Little Fish Hill, 小鱼山)
. Residences of famous ...

... would chuck children aside and tackle the distributors so they could run off with bundles of free kites. I can only compare it to feeding time in the lion's den at the zoo. I tried to go in for a photo but almost left with an elbow in the face. What can we say, these people love their "dongxi" (stuff). Leaving the festival involved climbing through a field of mud and fighting tooth and nail to get onto a public bus back to Weifang ...

Every time I write anything, it doesn't submit. So frustrating! I'm in my dad's hometown. Dave and I are finally resting. But resting has turned into boredom. *yawn* bonne nuit. Don't know when I can upload my pictures b/c I can't set up the DSL on my laptop. Boo

... hours and we were all so exhuasted we collapsed onto the rock hard beds, which were literally a thin piece of plank wood covered by a small sheet. We all awoke around 4:15am, happy to be out of the beds. We climbed a bit more and arrived at an open area. It was full of people all watching the sunrise. It was an incredible view, well worth the hard hike up. At about 5:30am we started to head down the mountain. The way down was much easier and faster going. The stairs ...

... please some stupid officials. WARNING to all travellers out there, if you want to travel to South Korea from Weihai in China by ferry and you dolt have a visa (even if you don't need to one because you are exempted some counties are) Weihai ferry employees wont sell you a ticket. It's not a problem if you go from Tianjin cause I done it, and I'm not sure about Quingdao

... none of the children (even the 3 yr old and the 2, 8yr olds) are getting solid food. The older children 3 and 8 are getting rice in their bottles. But all of the babies (including one 3 yr old) are being fed solely formula. The orphanage is usign the washer and dryer but are not so much using the diapers (they still prefer the cloth, because the soak up more nad then they can leave the dirty diaper on the baby for longer). The nursing staff seems to have improved ...