Xiamen Seaview Resort

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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... are well worth giving a second look to before you make your final decision. Like marble countertops are heat resistant and hold up well against the creeping damage of moisture. Both materials are easy to live on a daily basis because they wipe clean with a minimum of fuss. Both materials require a certain level of maintenance to avoid stains and chips, and it is crucial to the longevity of your marble counters to make sure that you pick ...

... 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.

... nice to see the scenery as we passed through the countryside. From Beijing until dark it was all brown, dry, flat farmland with occasional brown villages and misty weather meaning we couldn´t see too much. By the next morning the whole landscape had changed, and we were traveling through green hills, river valleys with subtropical forests and rice terraces and fields everywhere. We also had our first rain since arriving in China, and ...

... who do not treat beer drinking as a competition. (I was later to find out that I was wrong on both accounts. If anything, competitiveness is higher in this area than even Beijing). I looked around the house and saw that it was a courtyard style with a large block of stone in the middle probably used to slaughter animals or clean food. After a lengthy dinner, we went out of the house and hoped on a cousin's motorcycle. I sat in between my friend and his cousin ...