Xia Men Hao Hui Hotel Xiamen

Xiamen was a typical Chinese city. It was not very interesting really. About the only exciting thing that happened took place in a local department store. We were on the third floor looking for a few things that we needed back on the ship, and Cub couldn't find a bathroom. We must have asked a half dozen store clerks and none ...

... br><br>We requested a later lunch and ended up in a local restaurant where they had a fridge full of goodies and so really enjoyed prawns, squid, a local fish asnd a special soup ("expensive", says the guide) made of wild pig. Quite tasty.<br><br>Then driving back we stopped for these big bananas! The roadside vendor would not let Nancy buy just a few - she had to buy a whole hand of maybe 30 huge bananas! Though not as huge as she said they were certainly about 10 ...

... is another concrete jungle and sits on a very rugged coastline so is quite a spectacular jungle. We have a fast drop off at the Ferry Terminal to Gulang Yu; the ferry takes about 5 minutes to cross as it is less than a kilometer. The ferries run 24 hours and are very frequent. As it's Sunday the place is heaving with Chinese tourists - apparently Gulang Yu is very popular with locals. It's continuing very warm and we have regained the humidity as we came back to the coast, so the sea ...

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... catch a bus but cudnt find one so i copied from my chinky/english dictionery the sign for train station and hailed down a taxi. the fella understood it no dramas, so i was feelin proud as **** with my new ability to write chinese. the city we are in is xiamen, its pretty south in china, directly opposite taiwan but on the mainland. the city used to known as amoy to the west, i dunno if id heard of that before cos amoy rings a bell but it cud be from ...

... of the entrance fee. I only had 13.5 Yuan and the fee was 15 Yuan and there was no way in the world Sgnt Noodle was going to let my in without the full fee. If only I didn't give that student 5 Yuan this afternoon! I find myself giving donations to many High and Uni students here in China. They sit cross legged with their ...

... American guys coming our way chuggin on bottles of beer as they walked down the street. Hey Man, we're looking for some action, you guys going to be around later. Yep, we are going to be around, dunno where...bye! The temple maaaaaan, it's just a temple maaaaan. I wonder if they actually went the temple or if they did, did they climb the mountain at its rear? We ...

... at one of the first stops along the line we picked up a new roommate who certainly seemed to epitomise all the worst of what you read about Chinese culture. Right from the start this guy was noisy, coughing, spitting, I've never heard anyone eat noodles as noisily as this guy, he blew his nose straight onto the floor and then would pull out the tissue to wipe his nose, and at one point missed me by centimetres ...