Zhanqiao Hotel Qingdao

... views are spectacular, and somehow it also has the glimse of lifestyle from a big city. Thus to say, mixture of everything.

Definitely worth the visit, and the coldness...


Hightlights of visits:
. The Protestant Church(基督教堂 )
. Jiaozhou Governor's Hall (提督府), office building of former German governors [Gouverneurspalast] and former municipal government

... down the hills, we finally settled on a slightly outward hill...it's only 3:30pm and the sun is already preparing for the day-off......Point to note for the sunset fans, you gotta start early for that in Qing Dao. By 4:30pm the whole sunset process is done and we went for some city sightseeing, christmas trees and decos are all around already, nice lights there.

... the leganary Eight Immortals crossed the sea. Thirdly, it's where 2 rivers joins.

For me, I knew it from a local singer-song-writer (Sam Hui) 's song apart from the above.
(Sorry it's only in cantonese lyrics)
何處覓" 028;萊
曲：許 ;冠傑　詞ᦂ 6;許冠傑/黎 444;得

心嚮 4448;蓬萊 / 想身處 ...

Occupied by Germans during WWII, beers have been a signature beverages of Qing Dao thereafter. Today we went to the Beer museum, seeing the 100 years of this well-known chinese beer. Enormous varieties, you name it, they have it. Awesome library of information!

It's also linking to the production packing session as demo, cans and bottles are all in ...

We started with city tours to tower, St.Michael's Cathedral.

Finally, we setup our tripods in Zhan Qiao (Pier, 栈桥), at the temperature of -6 degrees for night scenes capture.....runny noses, frozen hands, shaky lens...

Highlights of the day:
. Ba Da Guan (Eight Great Passes, 八大关), the older area of town with some surviving German and Japanese architecture ...

... dates to meat to ice cream. Some are really good, and others are questionable.

I haven't bogged in awhile, but I do have to go backwards a bit in what I've missed because of the pictures I have to include. The last night before we left for Qingdao I took my camera out to snap some pictures, and of course left my camera at the restaurant (not a surprise to anyone, I'm sure!) Luckily a friend of mine grabbed it, but we left early the ...

... action as possibly allowed by the race committee, kind of like "inside the ropes" at a TV golf event. And like being inside the ropes next to Tiger or Phil, the spotters need to know protocol, the unwritten rules, what to look for and how to communicate it quickly. For the boat drivers, the same holds true then compound it with the wind, currents and tides, not to mention the traffic of boats around the ropes. This is the Olympics, and no one ...

... close to the epicenter of where the A-bomb had been dropped). They have tried to keep the building looking as similar as possible to how it had looked. It was really hard to imagine that it pretty much instantaneously looked like the utter destruction that we saw, as opposed to it just being an old building that had slowly collapsed. Then we walked to a few other peace memorials, including the Children's Peace Memorial with thousands of paper cranes. The story behind this is that there ...

... avec lui. Ensuite Philippe et sa copine Jiang Lei m'emmène dans un endroit comme il n'en existe qu'un seul par ville. C'est une sorte d'auberge, table d'hote, frippes de luxe où reigne un nombre incroyable d'horloge et d'accessoires de la marine. Lao Djo et Hélène, les hôtes nous recoivent avec un festin de fruit de mer. C'est mon deuxième repas de la soirée, mais c'est pas grave, je mange de tout!!! si si je vous assure ...

... fellow wanted the name "Adolf". I said Why do you want the name Adolf? "Because," he said, " Adolf Hitler was a great man. He started a Guerrilla Army and united all of Germany" (and most of my students don't speak English as well. He was genuine, so I said, well I think he was also a very bad man, he killed many people. "Yes, I know, but he was very powerful with the people". OK. (the way he described Adolf's history is really the same as they learn ...