Xiamen Wan Yue Feng Hotel

... for China and the persimmon harvest is also in full swing. The roads may have improved in China but I cannot say the same for the driving. I don't know whether to close my eyes or keep them open so I can brace myself for the impact! The slowest lorries seem to permanently occupy the outside lane so overtaking has to be on the inside, sometimes crossing the double yellow line to overtake in the opposite carriageway and sometimes resorting to the hard shoulder, exciting when a ...

... 1502;קום מוכר ולחזו 12; לאורנ 96;ציה עצמית.
במידה והיית 97; צריך לגור בסין, זה היה המקום הצ ...

... 1500;ום. אך זה מעבר לשליט 14;י.
את הערב העברת 97; בחוף הים, מסתכל על השקיע 92;, שכמו בישרא 00;, השמש שו ...

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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 ...

... noodles?" "Oh. Umm...." "We thought we would get dumplings." Dumplings is an option?! Of course dumplings, then! At dinner, Bo and I were presented with our very own Chinese name stamps and red ink well to sign important documents. Mine had my Chinese name, Jie fu. Pronounced with the correct tones, it means, "Heroic Man." The way I usually say it, it comes out, "Sister's Husband." Dinner was a great opportunity to observe dinner ...

... 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 ...

... upto 9th standard. The Communist govt. I am sorry to say is doing better than democratic govts. in a number of countries. And oh yes - lots of greenery... and parks This must have been an expensive hotel - Finally, reluctantly, after a good dinner of noodles in a streetsid eeatery, left gulang yu under teh watchful eye of the brave Chinese hero - Koxinga - Bt per

... ferry terminal. We got off at Lundu Wharf which is the name of the wharf that the ferry departs from that takes you to Gulang Yu. Instead of catching the ferry straight away we chatted to some 'You Do You Do' girls and decided on grabbing a ride on a fast boat around the island. The price for this is pretty much fixed as they have their own ...

For so long, I have maintained that the worst part about travelling is the travelling itself - the getting to and from, and the time in between. I admit I was wrong. It's just a specific part of it; it's the getting to and from the bus/train station. On the 24 hour train ride to Xiamen, OI came to realise that I actually quite enjoy the train rides here. The enforced idleness of it all gives me a chance to catch up on some reading, or listen to music, or sit and stare out of ...