Tian Mu Hot Spring Resort Wendeng

... and kneeled down to thank them for saving their lives.

But they found the two persons disappeared when they looked up.

On the next day, the learned from the inhabitants on the island that Liugong and Liumu often do such kind of good deeds. In order to show their thankfulness towards Liugong and Liumu, they built a temple on the island for them, and named the island Liugong Dao Island.

The Great Wall of China. Does it keep the rabbits out? well its big enough too. We headed down to Huang Ya Guan to view China's most famous structure, the Great Wall. Surviving the Chinese traffic, Chinese people have no idea on how to drive, my first view of the wall was from some distance, climbing up the side of a mountain then along its ridge it stood in front of me and my ...

I spent about 2.5 days in Qingdao, staying at a well-run and friendly hostel on top of Sifeng Lu, exploring the old town by foot and strolling the along the Ocean waterfront from the Old town in the west to the new part of twon in the east. The entire walkway is about 40km and I walked about 20km. The city still exudes a german charm that can be seen and felt around every corner; churches, the railway station building, magnificient villas and splendid ...

... forced feeding it was, at first. But as soon as Andy and I relented our tight holds on flat stomachs and regular bowel movements, we stopped fighting, and opened our mouths to the plethora of good home cookin? The traditional menu for Spring Festival is dumplings, dumplings, sausage, candy, and more dumplings. But because we were the first foreigners to visit their home, Peggy's talented mother wanted us to experience the spectrum of her cooking abilities. For this ...

Well I'm in Taiyuan now, having said my fond farewells to Yantai, so thought I better update you briefly on the events on the last few weeks. Sorry about all the drinking parents, too many goodbyes to say! Um, well after returning from my travels we had the joy of a week of saying goodbye to Alex and Emily in various guises. We went for an amazing meal the night before they left at a restaurant where u could basically pick anything you wanted to eat, it was very ...

Well I have now reached a level of fame of truly epic proportions. After being snapped having a picnic last week and being put in the paper to show how truly beautiful the weather was if Westerners could bring themselves to venture outside, I have now got my very own article! Of course I wasn't warned about this until the journalist had turned up at the school, and I suddenly had to pretend teach a class who were in the middle of ...

Hello! Yes sadly the dreams about finding a cheese shop are getting more and more frequent... For those of you who think I've gone mad (well I probably have) the sad truth is they don't eat cheese out here and I miss it. The only 'cheese' they have resembles diarylee which is tragic! I've heard rumours of an out of town shop that may stock cheese, I think a trip is sorely needed! Anyway I'm also yearning after water! Yes that fundamental element that I currently ...

Hello its me again, back with some joyful tales of China. I have now finished my second week of teaching and all is going well, the kids even seem to be listening, and I've been causing a few stirs as I do things like flash round pictures of the 'Elephant Man' during my Senior class. I'm not sure they were really prepared for that one! But equally, as I've been ...

Hello people! Well I've now been teaching for a week out here... and well it's been a week I won't forget! The children are altogether lovely, although as you can guess you will always get a few 'special' cases! They think I'm great, which is also nice, although it can be a bit of a mission to go about your business with lots of kids at your feet staring at you! This week's lessons have been good, but as you can imagine it tends to be the teachers who cause most of the problems ...

... mad chinese channels and the shower seems to drain into the loo! Bizzare..yes... but so are all things here. Its funny out here in China because the whole place is such a mixture of very western modern things while others are almost third world... For instance I have a very hi tech air conditioner in my room, but the plugs look too lethal to even touch! The school looks amazingly modern from the outside, and on the inside it is distinctly less so. For instance ...