China April 2007

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Far East and Australia 2002

I think I last bored you from Cairns will that is about two weeks ago now. Since then I have travelled to Alice Springs by the luxury of plane. Bliss! Once in Alice (Mum must reread the book because its not what I remember – not quaint!) where its hot ...

 

China 2005

I turned 50 in 2004 and my partner Sue surprised me with a trip to Brazil. Not to be outdone I hit her with a trip to China as her Christmas present China was everything I expected and more. You don't have to rush to see the "real" China bec...

 

A Viking Life in The Peoples Republic of China

Yesterday was one of China's big three holidays/festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival. China's calendar is based on the lunar year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is when the moon is full in the year's eighth month. The festival is celebrated by having a fam...

 

flying north for summer

We've been reading more about the history of this place, and yesteray went to a film about Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, so we're slowly managing to understand a bit more of the dismal past of Cambodia - although the more you learn about it the less it ...

 

China & Tibet 2005

We're sitting in the nastiest internet cafe (and we use that term loosely) in Chengdu trying not to catch anything from the keyboard, but we walked an hour to get here, so you should be thrilled to get this update... March 12 For the coldest da...

 

Round the World Trip 2006/07

We arrived in La Paz on Thursday afternoon. It is absolute mayhem here! Buses, taxis, combis and people everywhere. Crossing the road is a challenge in itself. We went to an Asian restaurant for our farewell meal on Thursday night. Having not had a cur...

 

China

24 Nov 06 WE'VE ARRIVED IN HANGZHOU - WE LOVE IT HERE! As always the train was spot on time. This time, luckily, the journey was just over two hours. We booked ourselves in a hard seater carriage, which is an experience to board! Loads and loads of...

 

Exploring The Global Mind in Asia

Shanghai! It's like New York! Pretty classy, yup. I immediately fought for my hotel room. The receptionists always said MAYO. No room. I then stood fast and started taking secretive notes. They would then finally give in. This theater was really old no...

 

China Tour

On Boxing Day, 2005, I embarked on a tour of China with the Amadeus Orchestra. We went all over the place by way of 10 flights, 2 ferry journeys and hours and hours on mental motorways. Here are some of the highlights....

 

OUR ODYSSEY

Caught Eurostar to Paris on Friday night. Sat went to market, Notre Dame, Crepes on Champs Elysee, Climbed Eifel tower, Sunday to Montmarte, more food. Moulin Rouge, more food, Eurostar hoem. Amazing weekend....

 

A Central Asian Extravaganza

The shoplady asked us, 'Why are you in Kazakstan?' We paused. Ask us that for Uzbekistan, we would have said: the people, the architecture, the culture, the history, the atmosphere, the fun, etc etc. But Kazakstan... Admittedly it was the worst sta...

 

Gap Year 2004

Me and Deaj organised to take a couple of days off work and head out to the Blue Mountains for a bit of fresh air. James really enjoyed his trips there, so it really had to be done. We shot over on a train to Katoomba, one of the larger towns in th...

 

Beijing Jazz

After teaching at Li Yang's Crazy English Camp and before moving on to Tianjin, I discovered a great jazz club in Beijing, on Saturday, August 12, when I sang with an international quartet composed of pianist Moreno Donadel from Venice, Italy, Chinese ...

 

China

If you go to Beijing you MUST sleep on the Great Wall. It is the coolest experience ever. You will sleep in a watch tower. Here is the info: The Great Wall Tourist Serviceroom Telephone: 13932444368 or 13613143948 The guy does not speak english ...

 

CASH Beijing Muisc Expo 2004

In fall 2004, five months after i joined CASH, i had a chance to visit Beijing by participating in this Music Expo + Concert exchange event jointly co-organised by CASH and the UK music copyright society PRS. Stayed in Beijing for 7 days (16/9-22/9), e...

 

Chris and Lisa World Tour

Follow our travels round the world...

 

Asia Overland 2006

After more than two months in the Middle Kingdom (Zhong Guo; China) we had visited many, many temples. We had travelled across the north of the country, mostly along and around the Yellow River (Huang He) and most of the temples that we had encountered...

 

CHINA

I spent a couple weeks in China, saw the popular sights in Beijing and then headed to do some volunteer work at an orphanage outside of the city. I enjoyed being with the Chinese people. They were so eager to hear what I had to say, I believe because t...

 

"all the places you will go"

These have been my travels, but there's more places to go yet. ...

 

laze around the world...all trips here

First trip to toronto, me and rach stayed at mary's apartment which is on the top floor of the building with a very very big balcony. mary slept in the master bedroom, rach in mary's room...me in the den in a sleeping bag!!! despite the fact that her ...

 

China's Family

My brother and sister in law have reached the memorable age of 100 together, 50 each. They invited the whole family of 22 (28, 1 family did not join) people to accompany them on a trip to China. We stayed in the best hotels and ate at the best restaura...

 

China

. . well, apparently, though really haven't seen very many, which was disappointing, though I got over it. Anyway, this has been a fleeting visit, only 2 days. I did a fantastic 4hr hike along the Great Wall. The weather was gorgeous and the views ...

 

Asia 2006

I originally hoped Patty would join me in Bali for my final eight days. She was busy, however. Jim joined me for the eight days. I got my scuba certificate while in Bali....

 

My Life in Beijing

Just thought I'd stick a few photos of myself on here for all of you that have been missing me THAT much!...

 

Summer 05 - China & Russia

zdravstvuyte!! (that is hello in russian...) Am having a fantastic time in Russia, is a great place. Moscow is really lively and young with a brilliant atmosphere. Have done all the sights there - St Basils cathedral was amazing (the Disney style ...

 

Vanguard At China

With one of the music ensembles at my College I got the opportunity to spend about 1 week in South Korea and another 3 weeks in China, playing concerts at churches and schools. I traveled with about 40 or so other students from the school, which I k...

 

Shanghai Trip 25 Dec 2003

This was the first time I went to Tokyo with him. It's great to visit the Gundom Museum, to see the large large Gundom....

 

China 2005-06

It's exactly four weeks since I arrived in Beijing for the third time and almost three years since I first came here. I'm not sure whether it is me or Beijing that has changed! It has been a rollercoaster four weeks with feelings of high elation at ...

 

Southeast Asia

It's a bit late, but Happy New Year to all and thanks for the New Year Wishes. Sorry I haven't updated this in a while, but internet service has been abysmal here in China. It's taking 30 to 40 seconds to load each page right now and this has been th...