Howdy - we'll we've certainly had an action packed couple of days, we're in Kaili in Guizhou province right now (nowhere near any earthquakes if you were wondering) but I'll step back a couple of days. From Sanjiang (last blog) we moved by bus to Conjiang (pronounced chongjiang - that caught us out for a while!), in the process switching from the Guiyang province to the Guiyang province - although there was merely a sign along the road somewhere, no U.S mexico border or anything. Both Sanjiang and Congjiang were fairly unremarkable but were means to an end. And that end [View Full Entry]

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Have I ever picked a place out of the blue and left on the first plane I could find...well...would have say no about 10 days ago...and would now say yes and asking for more ! It was one of those Saturday where you find out that you got three days off you hadn’t planed for starting the next morning...ones would think about the long list of things and sleep I could catch up on but ending up online as soon as I reached home and searched for the "deal" ticket that would get me out of Shanghai for a few days...guess [View Full Entry]

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Today we went to the Dingu Shan nature reserve for a good long walk. The number 21 bus dropped us off by the entrance and the rest was all uphill. The area was astounding. Everywhere you looked was waterfalls and amazing rock formations and pools. really beautiful place! Cant explain it in words very well but we will put a photo or two up! After hours spent hiking around and arriving at the peakj to see a huge rice bowl we took a little electric cart back down to the entrance and then the 21 bus back into Zhaoxing. lunch was [View Full Entry]

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Waking up at a decent hour we packed up and headed to the bus station on the train. We bought three tickets to Zhaoxing and hopped onto the 1.30 bus. After a few hours on the bus we were dropped off in another strange city and quickly set about getting lost. Success!! The bus station we were dropped off at was not the one we thought it was and so our careful wandering was all in vain. This would be the moment when the light rain that had been hounding us decided to become a torrential downpour. Stopping at a ceramic [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday April 9th 2008 I'm sitting writing this entry from Guiyang, I still haven't set off on my trip yet. I spent last week travelling to Nanning to put my passport into the Vietnamese Embassy to get my Visa sorted. I took an interesting picture in the Nanning Bus Station, a good example of the beauty that is 'Chinglish.' Check out the "Bus Station Loving Service", not a dating service or seedy hooker booking service as it might suggest, but actually just a customer service booth. I met a guy in Nanning, a young Brit called Liam, who had just spent [View Full Entry]

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Hello all! travelblog.org? Welcome to first blog entry! With the plethora of blog hosts out there, why travelblog.org then - with its non-HTML formatting (a pet hate!), google ads (equally as annoying), difficult to remember address (no one types in .org) and unfriendly user interface? Probably not the most important thing one looks for in a blog but I'm somewhat fussy about my blog applications, after being used to livejournal for 5 or so years. Well, travelblog.org is the only one which works properly in China. Most of the other popular blog sites such as blooger.com and li [View Full Entry]

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Winter Wonderland From Anshun I took the bus to Guizhou. Too bad there weren’t any stops, some of the sights where amazing. Especially the frozen rice fields. Usually when we think of rice fields the prominent color that comes to mind is green, there was no green in the rice fields these days but the replacing white made a spectacular sight nonetheless. The rice fields were not the only things that were frozen, some parts of the highway were suitable for the Dutch elfstedentocht (ice skating competition linking 11 cities). I’m wondering if the Chinese use any precautions [View Full Entry]

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Student ‘homecoming’ train I arrived with the night train from Chengdu, hard sleeper. While not uncomfortable, space is very limited for a tall Dutch guy such as myself. Because of the upcoming Chinese New Year lots of students are traveling home and thus the average age of the Chinese traveler was much lower than normal. China being China, a train full of students didn't become a party train but staid quiet and orderly. It didn’t take long before I was chatting with two students: Tom (his English name) and LiJing. They’re both studying in Chengdu and their ho [View Full Entry]

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Thursday 15th Nov First day, new home, strange place. First job of the day - get some provisions in, so we take a trip to the local supermarket Cbest. The small supermarket is not far from our apartment, in fact it seems that everything we need is not far. There are vegetable shops just outside in the street and many other small shops. Also in the narrow street are street traders, selling vegetables and other merchandise. At the end of the small street on the way to the main shopping area, is a large square/plaze, in the middle of which is [View Full Entry]

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Well itchy. Well itchy. Well itchy. I haven't done shite for updating my blogs. No excuses really. Well I have been busy since I started working in September but I had 2 months in Singapore to catch up but I was lazy. Just a quick update of now. I am in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China teaching English at English First Training Centre. The city is crap but I love the friends I've made and the most my students are great. Anyway. So here I go again. I hope I can remember all the good shit. These upcoming blogs will probably be a [View Full Entry]

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