Yantai Overseas Chinese Hotel

It was almost with a sense of euphoria that I arrived in Yantai. I don't really know what prompted this. Perhaps it was relief that the ship hadn't sunk on the way there; perhaps we can take a purely materialist view and say that it was just a chemical cause; perhaps it was the friendly, clean, good value and well-situated hotel that I checked into; or perhaps it was the effect of the friendliness of the largely blue collar population who observed me with ...

... do the talking and headed over for some sea food bbq. Once again we raised our hands in defeat as they wanted 6 Yuan for one seafood bbq stick when we both knew it was 5 Yuan for five seafood bbq sticks. <br><br>Sadly we departed Beach number two and bused it back to Beach Number 1.<br>Freakin greedy Shandong people!<br><br>Yantai Catholic Church<br><br>Here I decided to head up to Dama Lu to visit the ...

... to see the city slowly (and I mean slowly, we were going like 30 mph tops) fade away into the night and the ancient splendor of China reveal itself. The distant, obscure mountains, the sprawling farms, and the centuries-old communities centered on buildings in the old style, steeped in and still home to the world's oldest tradition. And we all got to take a 14 hour respite from Chinese-speaking on the train. We got to ...

... out. Turns out the song was playing real loud on some Chinese guy's cell phone, he was trance-dancing right there in middle of the mall! I said, "Say man, what's the name of that sweet song?" That boy didn't even stop dancing, he just said,"Bing He Shi Dai". Needless to say, now I jam to it on my iPod. For the best China travel information and tips on the Internet check out: www.askreddragon.com

... learning a bit of Chinese, snacking and drinking tea - taking it easy until training starts again tomorrow! Our group has a week until we're to be tested on the first proper fist form that we've been taught so I imagine this week will be a tough one. That's about all there is to report but will hopefully start updating sometime this week

... a system to avoid him so that it would never happen again and it never did so it worked[1]. Taxi drivers, children and many others, especially in markets, also found it completely acceptable to wander over to a corner, any corner, and do their business there and then. It was very important to watch where you stepped in some places. A very strange moment was while I was at the Wal-Mart in Yantai (the place was a godsend for foreigners with imported ...

... Chu Shifu was the master of chinese medicine, massage and bagua. Bagua was the walking in circles class and the only time I went to massage was great (he's damn good). He was a really nice guy, constantly smiling goofily, never saw too much from him except his really long sword form. I don't mean the form was long, i mean the sword was about 4 feet. Zheng Shifu was the mantis master, he was a real tough guy, nice if you were not in his class and he ...

... and the bus would start steaming up from the masses of bodies every 30 minutes or so. At about hour 10 one of the women in back complained and it cooled down considerably (being one of two westerners on the bus, who was I to complain?). I was extremely grateful to this women; by hour 10 I realized that I had made the fatal mistake of sleeping for the first 8 hours of the trip, when it was light out, only to discover that the individual overhead lights didn't work above the ...

Hello everyone Sorry about gap in contact, but I've been trying to settle in here and wait for some news to appear. Yantai is a pretty average Chinese city to stay in I think, although Sam who has come to stay thinks that as there are no tourists the locals do more bizarre things and stare more (which I would have to agree with) but the area Im living in is really good and having my own little space has to be the best thing that has happened, ever. There is a fresh sea food market ...

Hello! Yes sadly the dreams about finding a cheese shop are getting more and more frequent... For those of you who think I've gone mad (well I probably have) the sad truth is they don't eat cheese out here and I miss it. The only 'cheese' they have resembles diarylee which is tragic! I've heard rumours of an out of town shop that may stock cheese, I think a trip is sorely needed! Anyway I'm also yearning after water! Yes that fundamental element that I currently ...