Articles tagged with "China"
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Posted on: Wondering with Wind | 2008-03-27 07:15:30
(I am going to Hangzhou this weekend to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Here is what I have done in planning our trip:
1. Where to go: Nanjing and Hangzhou were our two preferred options: a nearby city with enough attractions for a 3-day vacation. B
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2008-03-24 13:21:22
I don't normally get into these things, but I have some strong feelings about China and the Tibet situation. Beware, I have decided to vent my negative chi into something positive with this post!
This is a petition to try to get the Chinese governm
Posted on: Wanderings: A Travel Journal | 2008-03-23 06:48:19
After about seven weeks in Sydney, Wendy and I moved to Beijing last week.
We'll be here for about six months while working with the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, and leaving at the end of August once the Games are over.
So far,
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-03-22 04:54:51
How did China learn how to spin Tibet?
From Salon.com
By Andrew Sullivan
"Trust a public relations professional living in Beijing to write by far the best analysis I've seen of the Olympic-size mess that China has created for itself through its acti
Posted on: China Teacher (David's big adventure) | 2008-03-17 04:19:14
School is back in full swing now and I have 17 hours of classes this semester vs. 16 last semester. I have 6 oral English classes and 2 writing classes. One writing class is with freshmen and 1 is with sophomores so I have to prepare different lessons f
Posted on: Musings on China | 2008-03-11 16:47:31
I have never been particularly drawn to Wuhan. It is big, too big, if you ask me. However, I find myself in Wuchang, one of the cities 3 parts. A friend had to go home because of a heart problem, and his school asked to come and teach in his place because
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-26 05:34:12
Joe, a gregarious Dai tour guide who hangs out at the tourist haunts looking for business invited me to join him and his family and friends, including a young French couple, at the new BBQ restaurants on the road along the river...the ones we couldn't fin
Posted on: Musings on China | 2008-02-25 16:52:06
You see pictures on the television of rivers of people going in mass to somewhere. Not crowded streets of people all going their own way. No, these are people all trying to get to the same place before anyone else. I was trying to get from the South Lake
Posted on: Musings on China | 2008-02-22 18:15:07
I went to see some good friends in Zaoyang. I was surprised that there were still piles of snow and ice around the city. Maybe, Zaoyang got more snow than Xiangfan. In Xiangfan, it is pretty much gone. Speaking of the weather, the temps have been
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-21 03:17:20
If there is anything a foreigner knows about China, it is that he or she knows that she knows nothing.
Today an American woman went to the Blind Massage School for accupuncture...but they don't do accupuncture on foreigners. She doesn't know why. T
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-19 21:55:13
Already, one-third of China's land mass is desert and it is losing 1500 square acres more a year to overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and draught. Looking out the window of my plane from Beijing to Kunming, for the first half-hour I thought I w
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-19 21:55:13
Already, one-third of China's land mass is desert and it is losing 1500 square acres more a year to overgrazing, deforestation, urban sprawl and draught. Looking out the window of my plane from Beijing to Kunming, for the first half-hour I thought I was
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-19 01:20:02
Yesterday an older woman from Ireland and I tried to find the Night Market at the end of the bridge over the Mekong River where you used to be able to get great BBQ meat cooked over coal fires. Not found.
Of the many uninterested Chinese we stopped
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-19 01:20:02
Yesterday an older woman from Ireland and I tried to find the Night Market at the end of the bridge over the Mekong River where you used to be able to get great BBQ meat cooked over coal fires. Not found.
Of the many uninterested Chinese we stopped
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-19 01:20:02
Yesterday an older woman from Ireland and I tried to find the Night Market at the end of the bridge over the Mekong River where you used to be able to get great BBQ meat cooked over coal fires. Not found. Of the many uninterested Chinese we stopped al
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-14 21:39:29
Too cold to do anything in Kunming so am flying out today to Jinghong in the south of China where it is reportedly nice and warm. Was in Jinghong in the tropical Xishuangbanna Region several years ago. Lonely Planet says there are over 800,000 peopl
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-14 21:39:29
Too cold to do anything in Kunming so am flying out today to Jinghong in the south of China where it is reportedly warm. Was in Jinghong in the tropical Xishuangbanna Region in December 2004 when it was much warmer than this year. Lonely Planet says
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-12 05:24:36
Hard to believe I was in Beijing for two weeks. But you know what they say about stinking guests if they stay too long. ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-12 05:24:36
Hard to believe I was in Beijing for two weeks. But you know what they say about stinking guests if they stay too long. So today I flew to Kunming in Yunnan Province in the south of China. Stewardess announced that the flight would take 3.5 hours to go
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-10 19:16:44
This week Josh and I went to the Beijing Exhibition which is a miniature replica of the city in a huge building. Josh says they ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-10 18:35:43
Picture of the layout of the the Bird's Nest from the Beijing Exhibition.
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-10 18:35:43
Picture of the layout of the the Bird's Nest from the Beijing Exhibition.
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-10 18:35:43
The two most impressive venues are the National Aquatics Center or simply the "Water Cube" and the "Bird's Nest."
The "Water Cube," a palatial structure with ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2008-02-10 10:00:00
Let's say you're Japan. Relations with your huge, powerful neighbor are always a bit strained, but they've become moreso recently since dumplings made by this neighbor sickened your fellow countrymen. (Thousands of people have reported feeling ill, ...
Posted on: Musings on China | 2008-02-09 23:39:06
I like to write about Xiangfan...I sometimes refer to it as my Chinese home town. The people for the most part, are open and friendly. ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-08 17:33:38
Chinese New Year's Eve Wednesday February 6 2008. Words cannot do justice to the fireworks we viewed across the city from the rooftop of ...
Posted on: Musings on China | 2008-02-07 19:52:07
Here in Xiangfan, the roads and streets are not too bad. We received more than 10 days straight of snow during the worst storm in ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-07 02:33:08
Last Friday I went to the Yew Chung International School of Beijing with Amy, my daughter-in-law.
Seventy five years ago an optimistic young ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 | 2008-02-06 10:25:30
It\'s all been very Africa Cup of Nations here on World Cup Blog lately, but turns out there are other continents that play the ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2008-02-02 17:51:16
In the airport, while waiting for my luggage to show up, I scanned the crowd of people in the waiting area and had no trouble ...
