Xiamen Peony Wanpeng Hotel

After a 3 hour drive along the coast into Fujian province, we arrive in another Special Economic Zone - Xiamen. This one's a little different in that it was previously the treaty port of Amoy and there is a small island offshore called Gulang Yu which was a colonial concession

The drive to Xiamen is a good one and crosses a series of mountain ranges and rivers that run down to the South China Sea. Some of these are limestone and many are uplifted plutonic granite, in great pink ...

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... and i could now see the sky as there was low polution leves and it wasent raining like in hangzhou

there is some realy cool stuff here as it was a very important trading port and was also ocupied by the english the french the spanis the dutch and the japanise so there is some realy intresting actecture to see

i am going on anouther long train ...

... party for her. Among other activities, we went bowling. Yes, ten-pin bowling in China. Surreal. We followed that up with a delicious dinner for ten. The only way to enjoy a Chinese meal is with a large group, otherwise you do not get much of a variety of dishes. One of the highlights was being asked, "Jeff, what should we have for our main dish?" "Main dish, but there are twelve dishes on the table already." "But do you want rice ...

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... apart but I had gone too far to step back now. Hangzhou airport was a surprise too, I expected a dimly lit hall with three airplanes departing daily but it was a huge, busy airport with a very interesting cathedral-shaped roof and could be entered into any airport design contest. Ninety minutes later I was in the deep south, it was warm, no wind, and when I walked around long after dark to get some dinner, wearing a T-Shirt and no jacket, I knew I had done something right.

... amp; decided we still had better eat something because our flight left very early the next morning. We agreed on an Italian restaurant. Two hours after the meal, I knew I had food poisoning. I spent the rest of my night in Hong Kong in the bathroom. Larry slept through the whole thing! I didn't think I would ever be able to get on that plane the next day, but I did. Didn't really eat for a couple more days....ugh! We ...

Xiamen - Fujian Province: the homeland. Apparently. Well, Mum says so and so does Dad, but less convincingly. I'll take their word for it. I mean, what the **** do I know anyway? The idea of it excites me at least. Before coming here, I had these visions of running into a parallel universe Mark, that had been living in CHina all this time instead of being born abroad. My vision is kind of 'Back-to-the-future-esque' (by the way - what happened to Michael J. Fox - i really ...