Yunhan Plaza
Travel Blogs from Tianjin
Finding H
... Zealand. Mmmm, not so good but then again it often works. So what to try next?
I know! I have a bus map website that is good with only one small problem:- it is in Chinese. And I don’t know how to write “Hongda gongyu” in Chinese. Opens up Google Translate. Pastes Hongda gongyu in there and … da-da! The Chinese. So, now we know, well with some degree of confidence, that “Hongda gongyu” ...
It’s on the Internet --> It’s True
Who to believe?
Today I read that "China plays down possible birth rule change", a description of how the article published a couple of days ago describing up-coming changes relaxing the current one-child policy … was wrong.
That article titled “Birth rule could be ...
Xie dai (鞋带)
... ge yǒu ma” but when typing my journal I have the added help of my computer and Google Translate (& sometimes Bing Translate, but there is another story there …)
And Xié dài (鞋带)? What does that mean? (see the blog entry title) Shoes laces apparently. And did you see the price? Y3.5 or about ...
Trials & Tribulations, Smiles and Felicitations
... along the corridor and … rats, there is a class being held in there now. I’ll have to come back later.
This morning I decided, as it was Saturday, that there wouldn’t be a class if I went early. So off I headed at 7:30 am, arriving at the classroom about 10 minutes later. There were already some students drifting between the dormitories and the classrooms with some of them ...
Off we go!
So after years of dreaming, months of planning and days of packing we were finally ready to start off on our Europe Adventure! As we mentioned in our last post we were a little but nervous about getting to Athens as both Beijing and Athens were going through interesting changes while we were due to pass through them. At 6.30pm we locked up and said goodbye to our little apartment and went down stairs to meet our driver. ...