Dong Yue Fashion Hotel Guangzhou

... we haggled for some jewellery and sarah is ruthless. we sat down at a table in a long hall of Chinese restaurants and tried duck and chicken bone dishes, then it hit, whitewash face of sarah dissapeared into the horizon of black bobbing cuts, she returned in a matter of seconds to only say a few words 'i vomited, in front of a chinese family, they ran away and squealed'. I looked perplexingly at her but we quickly ...

... 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.

Arrive after 11 pm and my company screws up the pick-up. 20 guys trying to sell me sim-cards are chasing me around baggage claim because I'm clearly not moving out. After an hour and deciding I won't be picked up, I bee-line for the first cab in lineup. The ...

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 ...

... me who usually eats two to five Yuan needles. I spent the rest of the day walking lazily along the islands quiet streets. For those who have been to the small island of Gulang Yu which is located just across from Xiamen City in Fujian Province don't think in comparison when both are described as having European architecture etc. Both do but Shamian Island is simply ...

... then there's no reason to work for them. But if Zhang were to try to quit from this government-owned company, the government could block his attempts to find a comparable job anywhere else in China. Talk about being stuck between a rock and hard-place... On another note, Jacqui and I are leaving tomorrow! We've got almost all our shopping done and we only need to pack up tonite and we head to Hong Kong in the morning. Man is it going to feel extra cold when we get back to Glens Falls!

... didn't exactly frequent this shop. Only half an hour or even more later I went out. But not because I felt it was enough. It was rather because it was enough and I didn't want to overstretch their hospitality. That was the only reason. Against my will, I stood up from one "Petrof", said bye and left. I stopped once again in front of "Steinway & Sons". But it made no sense. So I headed for the Zhongshan Lu at last. Zhongshan Lu is one of longer streets, particularly in the Gu ...

... gemiddeld aantal babyzaken en er lopen een groot aantal Westerlingen met Chinese babies rond. Verder nog een bezoekje gebracht aan de plaatselijke markt waar echt van alles te koop is (o.a. honden en katten). 's-Avonds uit eten geweest met een jongen van de sportschool (rob) en zijn Chinese vriendin (su wen. Heerlijk Vietnamees gegeten voor de lieve prijs van 113 yuan (zo'n 11 euro), inclusief een paar halve liters bier, met zijn drieen

... out the food vendors started plying up and down the aisle.

Arrived about lunchtime, but couldn't find my guide. Ended up walking up and down until all the other visitors and arrivals had left, and there was one Chinese girl waiting for the one lost guest. She only had a sign with a number on it rather than my name and she didn't know the name of the person who she was meeting.

Whisked away in a taxi for an afternoon tour of Guangzhou. Shown the ...