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Travel Blogs from Tianjin
Finding H
... in some more. Hover over a bus stop that looks about the right spot and bingo, got it! It is stop #12 and I’ll be starting on stop #48 at the university – a bit of a trek.
Now, what is the name of that street? An English map will help here so it is back to Google Maps. This time I only enter “teda” as I know that will get me into the right area. Zoom in – I know the area – and ...
It’s on the Internet --> It’s True
... described that “…action plans have been drawn up …”
Judge for yourself. The two stories, when I last looked, are at http://www.china.org.cn/china/2012-11/2 8/content_27247159.htm and http://www.china.org.cn/china/2012-11/3 0/content_27272682.htm
Who to ...
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
... there is a music note on that one), and try the Sample Music folder. There are two files in there and they play really well with what looks like a QQ (a popular Chinese social website) media player program that I haven’t seen outside of the classrooms before, with the sound coming from speakers in the front of the computer cabinet. Yep, that will do … but wait, they are Windows Media files (wma). That ...
Off we go!
... was rather unexciting. We flew with Aeroflot, the national carrier of Russia, which was rather cramped but exceptionally cheap. Arriving in Athens we were rather uncertain what the situation would be as the Greeks had been striking for the last couple days, as we mentioned last time. Our plane was able to land successfully and one through customs we discovered that due to the strike there were not public busses, ...