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Snapshot: The Forbidden City, Revisited
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 9 April 2010
The past weekend was a good illustration of the joys in revisiting even the most on-the-beaten-track place in Beijing. On this trip, I was accompanying my friend Lily (who doesn’t have a blog but suggests you might want to buy a necktie) on her first trip to China.
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From Hong Kong to Beijing
Blog: Orn's travel blog - South-East Asia and China - 8 April 2010
On our second day in Hong Kong we had planned to take an open air double decked bus tour around the city. When we woke up the weather would have nothing of it though. It was raining and kind of cold so for the first time during our trip the weather made us change our [...]
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Dinner Out: Xian Lao Man, Beijing
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 5 April 2010
I had two ulterior motives when I made plans to go to Beijing to meet a friend making her first visit to China.
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Taxi Cabs in Beijing, Qingdao (and other cities for that matter)
Blog: Travel China and the World - 14 March 2010
As you can tell from many of our postings we have lived in China for a number of years, having come and gone a number of times. Many things about life in the country are changing very fast and to the better — the quality of life is definitely going up, many of the [...]
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4 Secrets to 4 World Wonders
Blog: Backpacker Bucks - 2 March 2010
Make the most of your once in a lifetime experience at these world wonders with 4 golden tips from a backpacker.
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Olympic Fever - tips for the Vancouver Olympics
Blog: Heather on her travels - 15 February 2010
If you’re feeling the excitement of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, you’ll enjoy my guest post today from Blake Abel, with tips on how to get maximum enjoyment from your visit, based on his experiences at the Beijing Olympics. With the Vancouver Olympics fast approaching, it is time to get Olympic fever. As travelers we can [...]
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Looking for Beijing’s pulse
Blog: PocketCultures - 15 February 2010
No one feels the pulse of a city like its cabbies. Beijing taxi ride: credit
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Last Day in Beijing, in Which We Prove that Five Heads Are, Indeed, Better Than One
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 10 February 2010
1/29/10: Beijing,China We usually try to hit all of the big sights in each of the cities we visit, but a lot of the time those experiences will blur into a kind of soupy mix in my memory and only a few small things will end up standing out. Take today for example. Attraction: Tiananmen Square Will remember: [...]
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Shhh! Our Driver Can’t Hear His Left Turn Blinker
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 9 February 2010
1/28/10: Beijing, China My mom’s mom is the fifth of eight children in her family, and the only one who left China. For 30 years after her departure, she and her siblings lost touch, only to regain contact through one of her nieces back in the 1970s. Over 30 years later, Zhou and I got the [...]
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A Pink Fan Dance for the Ages
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 4 February 2010
1/24/10: Beijing, China Today was a day of observing our surroundings and soaking in as much as possible. As I reflect on the happenings of the past fourteen hours, three observations stick out like a soaring bum over the streets of Philadelphia. People never cease to surprise me. I am lucky I made it through school. I need lots [...]
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The Great Wall and the Greatest Supermarket
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 3 February 2010
1/23/10: Beijing, China The Great Wall is one of those sites that you really do have to see if you’re in the area, but there’s no real surprise when you get there. It’s pretty much exactly what you expect, maybe even a little less – well – great. I’m pretty sure that it can’t be true [...]
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I’m Finally Home!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 2 February 2010
1/22/10: Beijing, China After 25 years of searching for my missing half (no, not Zhou), I’ve found it. It’s the half that has given me some of my best qualities: my love of the abacus, my squinty eyes, my lack of a necessity to shave, my random propensity for chili dogs (wait, maybe not), my ability [...]
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Just Another Day Off
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 1 February 2010
1/21/10: Beijing, China Stepping outside the Beijing airport after one and a half months of Southeast Asia sun was like rounding the corner of your gym locker room only to see someone’s naked butt in the air: not altogether unexpected, but still somewhat unpleasant. And though we had lots of cold and snowy days in Nepal, [...]
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Street Performer off WangFuJing
Blog: Travel China and the World - 30 January 2010
Just recently I was scanning through the videos we had taken during various times in Beijing and came across an interesting one (not great quality unfortunately — the evening we took the video we had just a small pocket digital camera with us which had basic video functions). That evening friends of ours and [...]
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Interesting experience going through Beijing International Airport Terminal 3
Blog: Travel China and the World - 17 December 2009
Recently a took a flight from Taipei to Beijing. Yes, the flights between the two cities are now becoming the norm. Earlier in the Summer (of this year) I flew from Shenzhen directly to Taipei, and now from Taipei directly to Beijing. For those of us who remember just a couple-three years [...]
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A perfect day for bananafish
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 1 December 2009
23 Sept (32 Days on the road, 12,000 + ? km from home) Get up, get out of bed, run a comb across my head. Meet Crazy Aussie in the bathroom, he has a strange stilted shyness to him when he is sober, the sort of mannerism of a man who has possibly just committed [...]
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Into the Hutong
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 18 November 2009
There is somthing deeply frightening about the bufoonery of military pageantry. Observing it up close you cant help but feel that you are looking upon some great and powerful simpleton an enormous muscular brute with the petulant mind of a child. Military show, long since regarded as obscene in most other parts of the developed [...]
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Scammed in Beijing
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 10 November 2009
19th Sept Perhaps their fears were well founded after all, or so I was forced to concede strolling back along Tianamen Square when not 24 hours after Eoin and Ashling had left I got scammed. I wasnt especially annoyed with myself since Id unwittingly blundered into the trap and managed, once it had been strung, [...]
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Expat Life in Chengdu, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 22 October 2009
"During last year's earthquake I was on Qing Cheng Shan which is one of the birthplaces of Daoism."Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier) No related posts.
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Travel Video – The Longest Way 1.0 – One Year Walk/Beard Grow Time Lapse
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 October 2009
_ I love this video of Christoph Rehage as he sets off to walk from China to Germany. Many others do too – it has received at least 500,000 views on YouTube. While he didn’t reach his goal, it is clear he had many adventures along the way. You can read more at his blog. Buy travel [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier) No related posts.
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Too Many Men in Tiananmen
Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 5 October 2009
Yesterday we arrived in Beijing to sunny skies and temperatures of 20 degrees, after driving from Galway to Dublin, taking a flight to Heathrow, then the 9 hour flight to Beijing, then a train then taxi to our hostel – Santilun Youth Hostel. The staff here are really nice, and so far we have only tried one thing from their menu but it was amazing French toast. The shower leaves little to be desired (pressure) but we have a great king bed with lots of sunlight. I seem to not be ...
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Sunday Specials – Unusual Hotels: “Oh My God!” Hotel in China
Blog: PassportChop.com Travel Blog - Reviews, Travel Experiences - 9 August 2009
China’s Tianzi Garden Hotel You might be wondering why am I showing you a picture of 3 Chinese gods, Fu (in the centre (in red) symbolizing fortune – Mandarin = 福), Lu (to your right (in green) symbolizing prosperity – Mandarin = 禄) and Shou (symbolizing longevity – Mandarin = 寿) Well this is the structure of [...] Related posts:Sunday Specials – Unusual Hot
