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Finally arrived

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

So, we’ve stepped our foot finally on the land of China. Everything went very smooth, we got our luggage, Julian survived the horror and we even arrived half an hour before schedule.

duck food
First meal in Wuxi, China. Fried rice with duck, duck soup with blood clots (it’s really common in China, Julian thought it was weird though). It was a local duck xiaochi (small eat) place.

Yesterday we went and picked up Janie’s cousins from school, which they found very embarassing. We passed by the outdoor market for some snacks.


Julian by the market, and center of attention.


The snacks.


Dinner in the evening with the whole family. All the cousins with their parents, only people missing was Janie’s mom and dad and sister.

Slept until 11:00 today, if it wasn’t for Janie’s grandpa we would still be sleeping. So basically we’ve slept 15 hours out of our first 25 hours in China. Anyway, now we have to do something more constructive, so we are planning to go into the DOWNTOWN. It will be warm, very warm. We’ll update next when the internet works, yesterday night it didn’t. Hope you guys are cool up in Sweden!!

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Hurghada, Egypt

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

This one-week trip during January 2005 was of “charter” as we say in swedish. Lots of pale white swedes shipped (or aired) from icy cold, dark Sweden to sunny, but not-as-warm-as-we-thought Egypt. Hurghada was a city of only huge hotels that you never had to leave because they were like towns. Awful, but hey, what else can you expect for that cheap ticket?

Egypt JP at airport
Oh, that hair! Julian’s hair was violated many times by Egypitan men who could not help touching it.

Egypt Suntanning
The glory and glam of jet-set life. Suntanning in a not very exotic and elegant way.

Egypt Nile
The couple by Nile. Awww….

Egypt Luxor
Smile we are in Luxor, wonderful picture. And Luxor was wonderful, just a wee bit much tourists. We don’t like the old ruins being trampled on that much, it’s becomes so artificials. And the long tour-bus line driving from Hurghada to Luxor, my God, 50 buses in a row. Guarded by police, we were like the pharoahs and queens themselves.

Egypt Julian
Julian by a pole/tower/very old architectural thing in Karnal Temple. Wait, it’s a flower i think. There supposed to be 154 of them or something, maybe this wasn’t one of them… Now i’m confused.

Egypt Janie
Janie in snorkels, ready to do a slick back dive into the red-orange-yellow fishes of the under water world. The water was very salty, Julian was scared of water and cold. Otherwise I look a lot Life Aquatic-ish don’t I?

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