Hanting Express (Taiyuan Nangong Plaza )

My God!!
What??
That was the funniest and oddest bus I've ever been on! Firstly, It took forever to actually book at ticket! The trains were completely booked out so we dragged our backpacks to the bus station. At the station it took the usual amount of repeating and hand gesturing to get a ticket!

"Taiyuan?" "TAIyuan" "TaiYuan"

Even if you know the name of your destination there's no way in the world you'll pronounce it right. Eventually,once a ...

Z Wutaishanu jsme vyjeli autobusem v 8:10. Cesta do Taiyuanu trvala asi 4 hodiny, vetsina osazenstva ji prospalo - i kdyz personal autobusu se to snazil narusit poustenim nejake cinske superstar neuveritelne nahlas.

Jedna zastavka na benzinove pumpe. Zacina se zdat, ze toalety na benzinkach budou hlavnimi adepty na cenu "Zachod Julie Hubenakove". Hlavne devcata si porad nemuzou zvyknout na vykonavani potreby pred zraky ostatnich Cinanek ve fronte. O zapachu ani nemluve ...

... all these problems. Through internet, Native Chinese teachers can offer professional Chinese for Children and propose useful advice on how to learn Chinese. What's more, online learning also offers convenience and flexibility.

... lunch where I discovered the most amazing Shanxi noodles. They are a specialty here and they are hand made, you can put tomato (i know that sounds odd for China, right?) or beef sauce on them and it is great. I think it might be my favorite food in China so far. We also had this scary soup. It has little tiny shrimps in it, can you see their eyes?

After lunch we headed to the Qiao family courtyard where the film Raising the ...

We get dropped off at the Qingxu service station at 2:30am. There's a 24hr convenient store, we find a row of plastic seats and tries to make it until the sun comes up. We have been on the road nonstop for 18 hours, have to wait 7 more hours before we can find a bed.

Before arriving in Yichang my son said to keep things simple in this city. As soon as we arrived yesterday we went to the concierge and asked about a tour to the 3 gorges dam. The concierge told us that we could sign for the tour right then. We did paying our 200 yuan on the spot. The only way to see the dam is via an official tour. A little later the confcierge told us that the tour would be a chinese led ...

... i kdyz jenom jednu). Pak jsme vyrazili na obhlidku. Taiyuan ma jenom jednu skutecnou zajimavost. Cca 60 km od mesta se nachazi dvorec rodiny Qiao, dum, ve kterem se tocil slavny film Vyveste cervene lucerny. Tam jsme jet proste museli. Na recepci nam poradili i spravne nadrazi, ze ktereho jet, nicmene jsme se rozhodli si vylet nechat az na dalsi den a idealne se do Taiyuanu vubec nevracet a jet rovnou do Pingyao. Pak jsme tak ruzne zabijeli cas, sli jsme navstivit ...

... in the universe!!! had suffered a series of bad seizures and tragically had to be put down. Tears were plentiful and our grief insurmountable - he had been the bestest of friends to every single member of our family, and the thought of him no longer being around, begging for food or yipping at the door or just being adorably soft, cute and cuddly, was crushing. On this day we planned a trip to Mount Hua Shan, also ...

Great to catch up with our friend Tab who has been studying Chinese in China for the last year. Pity about her city - one of the most polluted in China. Coal dust coats everything, and being surrounded on 3 sides by mountains, not a lot of air movement makes for some pretty grim and grey days. Looking straight up and seeing some blue was defined as a good day. Being outside, even licking your ...

Man, a few things here are already driving me crazy...actually just one main thing...the complete and total disorganization of this school! Foreign teachers have been coming here for like 4 years, yet there's not even one page of information for new teachers. Like the director couldn't take one hour and create a sheet with information on school issues, classrooms, bus information to town, anything. I've been trying to find out where there's a copier I ...