Yihong Hotel Guiyang

... br>The best bit about yesterday has to be that Tom went out looking for dinner whilst i grabbed a shower, and when he came back, he had chips and sausage! We have eaten nothing but noodles and rice with spicy food stuffs for 10 days to finally have something mildly english, was amazing. Even if the chips were under-cooked, and the sausage over-cooked. Oh well.

We're off to Kunming today on a train, heading south to Laos.

... and a little old, a typical Chineese place. Nobody speaks English and all the signs are in Chineese(which is their second language, after the Miao language), anyway: we manage.
Today at 9 Billy came and took us to thr CITS office, gave us good information. We go at 12:30 to a Miao village, Xijiang, where we'll spend the night. Tomorrow we'll return' pick the luggage and continue to the south.
We found this internet cafe ...

... afternoon or night time!
I don't know how people on tour do it because it's really tiring, last night people were trying to get us to come out and get food with them after the gig (this one guy was from HK, but had spent some time in Ireland so had the coolest Irish accent ever!) but we were all too exhausted and maybe a little burnt out (speaking for myself) so we just came back to the hotel...and went to sleep...we haven't been to bed before 1 ...

... barps' and we were off on a hair-raising ride through the rush hour traffic including a u-turn generating the loudest response yet. Somehow we arrived at the hotel having just lost sight of the taxi, but luckily we spotted Helen on the footpath waving her piece of paper at us, and not a scratch on the truck. A close one but we are now in a nice newish bright and clean pub, on the 16th floor, laughing at the cacophony below. It is chaos out there and we are off for a bite.

... on the scenic and cultural attractions of Xijiang, instead of just a beautiful face. A Xiang-yi sees it differently. "Every villager is an ambassador of Xijiang," she said. "Besides, you can find girls much more beautiful than I everywhere in the village." A Xiang-yi said she has more important tasks to concentrate on for now - with the May Day holiday approaching, she has to get ready and train dozens of staff members for a tea-tasting fair. "It will be three hectic days," she said.

... to see there, a waste of time. Buy some fruit and sweets for supper in the train, and we are left at Guiyang train station, among milions of chinese people. The train has no closed cabins, and we must sleep in the beds in the middle of the corridor, more than 80 persons per wagon. This will really be an experience. Tomorrow we arrive in Guilin, after more than 17 hours in the train. I wonder if it is worth saving the hotel to suffer all this.

... capital of the province. Check in, a short walk, and buy something for supper in a supermarket: some dehidrated noodles, to which you only have to add some boiling water to cook them. Very cheap and tasty! It's been almost 1 week since we saw last non chinese person! Incredible, we thought we would find thousands of tourists everywhere, visiting China during Olympics, but we were wrong.

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... water-chestnuts and oranges. A very helpful gentleman helped us choose the best oranges to make sure we weren't cheated as the salesman was trying to palm off the rotten ones on us. Back at the hotel, we watched a martial arts epic on TV. We couldn't really follow the story-line, but most of it was elaborately choreographed fighting anyway. Yoong says she grew up with films like this. The only difference is that then the actors were much older, whereas now they are ...

... themselves, we are sure to point out, are smart, attractive people). I'm sure some of the folks who are interested enough to read this little blog are curious to know what our apartment looks like (Hi Mom, Dad!). So far our walls are pretty empty. We have hung up a couple pictures we brought from the States, and one of Jenn's classes gave her a scroll on the first day, which we hung in our second bedroom (the "office"). We plan to get another scroll or two, and a decorative ...