Blogs from Jiangsu, China, Asia - page 8

New photos on: http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/draftwrite/ …..I have detailed before the constant last minute amendments to schedules at the school & changes without warning to daily activities. It's part of the Chinese experience &, it seems, a way of life here. An unexpected phone conversation with a young woman at 10.30pm on a Saturday evening, roughly translated from the Chinese. ”I saw you at the One Bar last week, you were singing there with Steve...” … “Yes”... “I want to know, can you sings songs at a (???)” … “I'm sorry, what was the last word” … (She switches briefly to English)... “a weeding” … “Huh? Oh, hunli?” (a wedding?) ... “Dui, (yes), hunli”… “Maybe. When is the wedding?” … “Tomorrow afternoon” … “No, I can't” … “Why?” … “I have classes tomorrow” … “Oh, OK, thank you” ... read more

New photos on: http://s251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/draftwrite/ …..sorry, my second supposedly monthly newsletter is already running late. Studying for a degree cuts into my time. Why didn't someone tell me that before I started?. Now Travelblog has seen fit to "improve" its photo uploading capability so now, as is common with such improvements, the new system, despite installing the latest Flash Player as instructed, doesn't work, the old uploader doesn't work either. Damn it! I wish these geeks would just remember, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!! Just follow the link to Photobucket, (above)..... (it appears to be working now ...!) ..... …..looking at my photos Chinese friends are wowed by Australia's clean air, beautiful beaches, lack of crowds. They accept crowds as a fact of l... read more

Geo: 31.1547, 120.723As previously advertised we are spending a couple of days doing very little to get our feet rested from all the sites and museums. We are in a town called Tongli which is one of the "water towns" to the east of Shanghai (for some reason it gets the district name of Suzhou from the Travelpad mapping tool). Tongli is supposedly full of old historic houses built around a system of canals, a bit like the Dutch villages in the north of Holland but with shorter people and no cheese nor windmills.I say supposedly as most of the houses are reproductions. Whether the originals were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution or it is just the Chinese way of restoration (knock it down, rebuild using concrete made to look old and new wood). Whilst they ... read more

Trip on tube : China trip (中国) Episode 9 - Nanjing trip (南京) Hi i just came bck from China this is my second time for publishing blog this episode i would like to bring u to center of China. we will start from Nanjing Beijing the meaning is North Capital and Nanjing is South Capital the most attractions is the memorial hall of victim (must see) and Zhongshan Mount. so let's enjoy my footage url=http://w... read more

Vi har nå kommet oss til byen hvor Christina har bodd den siste tiden. For å komme oss til Changzhou tok vi hurtigtog - trur det har en toppfart på oppimot 400 km timen. Før vi kom oss på toget vardet et sant kaos, kinesere har ikke køkultur og de presser seg forbi deg som den største selvfølgelighet. Togene her går når de skal, har man ikke kommet seg på toget pga. alt kaoset kan man oppleve å bli stående igjen. Det samme gjelder alt av offentlig kommunikasjon. Må kanskje være sånn i et land med så mye mennesker!! Byen Christina holder til i er en "små" by, kun 3 millioner innbyggere!! Her er det KALDT, så jeg måtte en tur på H&M for å kjøpe meg en varm jakke og varmere votter!! H&M er eneste ... read more