Xiamen Hua Neng Hotel

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 ...

... accommodation and food). The main sights are a large granite fortress on the coast which defended China unsuccessfully against the British in 1842, and was also the first line of defence against the Japanese 100 years later - by when we were on their side. Ironically they had bought 2 huge Krupp cannons from the Germans before the Second World War and these were then used against their allies. The fort is not very interesting but the history is and the location has ...

... I went round looking for internet but could not find any and the hotel were charging an arm and a leg so this has had to wait 24 hours - but that's another story.

In the morning we wander around the streets and take in the ambience. There is a Chinese residential area as well as the tourist area, although apparently it is hugely expensive to live here. It sounds like a small flat costs well over 100,000 pounds in this coastal part of China and it's hard to imagine how most ...

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... winter is coming. I guess Santa is already waiting up there in the northern plains of Novosibirsk, all packed up and ready to go. After breakfast I felt it is time to become active or freeze to death, so I enquired about air tickets to somewhere warm. Hainan island was quite a long way, but the girls at the reception got me a very cheap ticket to Xiamen, a place on the southeast coast I always wanted to visit, with a forecast promising more than 20 degrees down there ...

... not that cold but raining most of days(i went there for 7 days,rained for 5 days). i took the train with a friend named Ed to Guangzhou, then transfered the vehicel to Xiamen at afternoon after the train riding. The weather was okay at the first day that i arrived Xiamen. It was cloudy but no rain.

... and I chatted about my plan for the next couple of days and I tried to gently imply that I wanted to go see the earth dwellings alone, as my friend was starting to force himself on me as a guide and helper. I became uncomfortable listening to my friend and his father and his friends talk in the unintelligible dialect. I asked told my friend that I was tired and he took me upstairs to go to sleep. Tomorrow will be here all too soon and I really should get some rest.