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March 21st 2013
CHAPTER ONE - It finally happened, I was overdue. I have traveled extensively the past 15 months with no health problems, but this morning I awoke not feeling well. I know it wasn’t mal de mere because the sea was smooth; I was extremely tired and had no appetite. I ventured to the buffet so that the stewards could get in, but I didn’t feel like trying anything. I went back to my room and went to bed. Later I decided I didn’t have the desire to get dressed for the formal evening and I cancelled my reservation for the Pinnacle Grill. I felt slightly better and tried the “late night snack” buffet and had a small piece of quiche and a fruit salad. Back to bed, tomorrow’s another day. I’m blessed that this was a ... read more
First impressions of the City of Shanghai, the Bund and the Zoo ...
Published: March 3rd 2013Asia » China » Shanghai » Pudong
February 23rd 2013
The hole City with all its contrasts, especially the contrast between the orginal buildings and the big scysrapers is really awesome and impressive.Nearly in every smaller streets you can find the smaller salesmann with jewelry, traditional food, clothes, entertainment stuff, toys and that stinky tofu ;) I really love it to the Chinese doing their workout in parks or next to the street. Also the little kids with their pets doing their first step under control of their parents.... read more
February 18th 2013
The Night Train If you have never done an over night train in China before then i defo recImmend it, they can be old an dated trains but they are cheap, Mostly clean (always clean bed linen) and by all accounts comfy and safe!! i have used them 4 times now and the journey from Guangzhou to Shanghai was my first, the only down side is most the stations in China are horrid, large, dirty, stupidly busy and nothings in English. I took the easy option and used a Chinese travel agents to get my tickets for me, tickets only go on sale 18 days before your journey and you cant book online so you have to go into a station and buy the tickets in person with your passport, if you don't speak Chinese then ... read more
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Flight: München (Airport) - Frankfurt (Airport) - Shanghai (PuDong Airport)
Published: March 3rd 2013Asia » China » Shanghai » Pudong
February 17th 2013
Starting my trip to Shanghai! First i had took a flight from Munich Airport to Frankfurt Airport with Luftansa. There i took a flight directly to Shanghai (PuDong) Airport. The durance of the flight was about 11 hours, enought time to watch some movies, read some parts and to think about my expectations of China.... read more
Hard work, some fun times and a trip to Shanghai
Published: February 5th 2013Asia » China » Shanghai » Pudong
February 4th 2013
Hello! I decided I had better fit a blog in before I jet off to Thailand on Friday so I can dedicate an entire one to that when I get back, without all this Seoul / Shanghai stuff tagged onto the beginning! It's not very long, or very exciting, but there's still some bits worth a blog! :-) So basically after arriving back in Seoul and going straight back to work, my life during the week has pretty much been work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep, with the occasional meal out or trip to chiropracter! 13 hour days became the norm for the last 4 weeks unfortunately, but I did have some fun weekends, which are much more interesting to blog about! After the second week back at work we went out on the Friday night ... read more
January 20th 2013
Hi All, We've had a relaxing few days here in Shanghai. We spent the first day relaxing in the hostel and we went out for a walk down Nanjing Road in the evening. On Saturday I tried to hunt down some train tickets for us to get home but there are none left there aren't even any tickets to Changsha either so we're having to fly back home. One good thing is that it only takes a couple of hours instead of the 17-19 hours that the train usually takes. With an extra day in hand we're going to stay in Changsha on Monday night and travel back to Shaoyang on Tuesday. Saturday evening we went to one of my favourite restaurants in China The Uigher Restaurant on Yishan Road. I even had a twirl at ... read more
December 26th 2012
A City of Superlatives Everything's bigger in Texas. I think most Americans have heard this claim before. I was in Texas briefly once, but I don't particularly remember anything that left a large impression. I mean the Grand Canyon is in Arizona and the Sears Tower is in Illinois so... I don't know. None the less, apparently Texans like their "everything" bigger. If there's one place I know that's mastered this Texas mantra, it's Shanghai. After backpacking for three months and getting sick more times than I had planned, I was feeling the dire need to bunker down in a "safe place" for a bit. I wasn't ready to end my travels, but I wanted to be somewhere familiar. So I found myself once again flying to Shanghai, a place where I had friends I trust ... read more
December 22nd 2012
As noted previously, we all seem to have made it safely to the other side of the 21st of December. Congratulations to all but the Mayans... it does suck to be wrong, so I offer instead my condolences to them. C'est la vie. We at Disney English on-boarding had yet another weekend off. So, the 5+ ventured out yet again on a spine tingling adventure through the streets of Shanghai. This particular adventure started on the other side of the Huangpu River at the base of the Pearl Tower. We had full intention of going out and getting mindlessly lost again, but instead opted for the good ol' fashioned tour bus. Yeeeehoooo!! For a measley 30RMB (yeah... $5) we got a 24hr hop-on-hop-off pass. Eat that, DC with your $26 a person!!! Naturally, I'm uploading the ... read more
