GDH Inn (Guangzhou Gangding)

i knew it would happen, but only four days in and sarah has chinitis, all the smells, tastes and intruguing aspects of CHina have resulted in symptoms including vomiting in front of a chinese family in Qingping markets. we walked through a really really fascinating marketplace full of kittens, puppies, tortoitses, so many fish, salamanders, chip munks, every manner of claw, dried lizards, mushrooms, fungi and bunny ...

... 2 pools, resturaunts, shops, bars, fish pond with massive goldfish and a waterfall! yesterday we visited yuexiu park, it was really beautiful. we had many asian admirers, all saying helloooooooooo and staring at us, especially the kids. we tried our first weird foods including eel rice and hawthorn ice blocks, sarah has been sick for a while but dont stress mum mums cause she is ship shape for our ...

Enjoyed our meetings and colleagues. Went to dinner at a typical Guangdong/Canton restaurant. Menu was very creative. Plenty of exotics - baby pigeon, sting ray, fish guts, beetles, snakes, chicken feet. Was a bit naseous, but likely because of jet lag.

... doesn't speak English nor does the lead of the sim-card mafia, but he jumps in the front seat after I negotiate 200 yuan for the ride into the city using the hotel's chinese character address. Guess he just made commission on me. 30 minutes to GZ city center

Guangzhou was thankfully pretty uneventful except for this one little episode I thought I'd share...

Because of the 'swine flu' or H1N1 virus most of the border control areas scan your body as you walk through with your passport. I wouldn't have even noticed this had it not been for Ollie getting pulled aside for his very 'high temperature'. He was immediatley carted off while I had to go through immigration and wait for ...

... with lines in the sand. However, a recent innovation uses colored lasers that illuminate the lines in the sand.

In some venues, there exist sand courts that are used as usual during the spring, summer, and fall months, but during the winter months, a large tent (usually dome-shaped) is erected over the courts.

... between. After looking at my map I decided to use the very small patches of green as the day's different destinations and that way I would get to see parts of the city most would never think of visiting. The small green patches are simply small local parks and there isn't much to see in any of them except for the cities elderly playing Chinese Chess or singing Karaoke. I ...

... C his halo of hair aflame， he swaggered to budding men declaring "You'll be me！，" his annunciation denunciation， then stalked off， sated. The boys， abashed and angry， decided time was a virus ...

A high speed train back onto the Chinese mainland and we were ready for our onward journey into Vietnam. Guangzhou was a day stop over point to catch an overnight train to Nanning. If you want cheap knock off goods.......try your luck here before heading into HK. It's a lot cheaper and in a way more fun bargaining away.

... s real. Anyway, we declined to change our lovely bona fide money for toilet paper. In the evening, our friend Vitaly arrived from Hong Kong. There'd been a communication problem as we were texting him to find out when he would arrive, he got those, he replied by text, but we never received them. Anyway, we managed to get an extra bed in the room which was cool. We then went for a walk around Shamian Dao to show him around a bit, and then for a drink.