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                    <title>Aozhou to Yangzhou</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..little things make you realise you39re back in China. The green flash on the toothpaste tube does not indicate mint but green tea flavoured toothpaste. The look of incredulity on the face of someone you narrowly miss as they travel the wrong way down the bike lane concentrating on their mobile phone call amazed that wow t</description>
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                    <title>Not look like picture</title>
                    <description>..finally after 3 years of battling my way through literally the greatest annual human mass migration on earth China39s Spring Festival holiday or the Chinese New Year I succumb to the temptation to go somewhere with fewer people  much more sun. After all the Spring Festival is actually in winter  even southern tropical China is not all that warm as we discovered last year in B</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-773987.html</link>
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                    <title>I wirr wirr a tshirt and shorts</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite ..Yangzhou39s air while by Australian standards is pretty woeful is thankfully much cleaner than Beijing39s. On a scale of air pollution on which 300 is considered an emergency  in the USA goes to a top reading of 500 it hit 755 in Beijing last week. That39s apparently around 35 TIMES the safe level. The photos of t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-766842.html</link>
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                    <title>The Doomsday before Christmas</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..Christmas is approaching but not with the same avaricious fanfare as in Western countries but the Chinese are catching on to the commercial aspects of the Season of Goodwill  there are tonnes of tinsel to be seen fake Christmas trees gigantic in some cities but the bigarse literally illuminated white reindeer under whi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-762935.html</link>
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                    <title>Knee How</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..Ni hao is a universal greeting in China. It means literally You good. It39s approximate pronunciation is Knee how. The connection to the title will become clear in this issue largely devoted to being in hospital in China. I am at the time of writing in good health however my colleague  cosinger  gu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-757482.html</link>
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                    <title>Ain't no Sunshine when she's gone</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..the Gaotie the high speed train being rolled out across eastern China at a phenomenal rate is already revolutionising our travel to Shanghai. From here it39s approximately the same distance as from London to Edinburgh which I just looked it up takes about 5 hours by train. With speeds up to 300kph from Zhenjiang jus</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shanghai/Pudong/blog-754780.html</link>
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                    <title>Stone generation epic supreme</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..This week big horiday. Mid Autumn Festiwal an39 then Nationa39 Day. What we can do make life difficur39 for eweryone  Well for starters you can crank up Internet blocking to ensure that proxies don39t work  access to the 39Net in general is slow or impossible We done already. Only affect foreigne</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Hangzhou/blog-748227.html</link>
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                    <title>What's your favourite fishball</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwriteUsing a few photos from the new phone. Not great quality but I sometimes snap things I39d miss with the SLR like the new beer in the first picture or the sunset when I don39t have the real camera with me...Xiao Wei delivered a baby daughter 3.4kg. It must have been a great relief as she looked ready to deliver about 3 m</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-743530.html</link>
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                    <title>A 4 shirt day in the Bamboo Sea</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..on the way back from my trip to the Big Piano see last week39s blog I was sitting in the bus station in Nanjing waiting to get back to Yangzhou when a Chinese maths teacher speaking pretty good English started chatting  after the usual pleasantries offered to be my guide to the Zhu Hai or Bamboo Sea. The what Hav</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Liyang/blog-739136.html</link>
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                    <title>The Big Piano</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..Australia has competition for its collection of 39Big39 attractions those excuses for a road trip that rarely seem worthwhile if that39s the only reason you39ve gone to visit an area. The Big Banana The Big Lobster The Big Koala The Big Orange etc. China now has the Big Piano though it39s not called that. A </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Anhui/Huainan/blog-738096.html</link>
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                    <title>There but for the grace of Grace...</title>
                    <description>Photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..the video is a result of playing with my new smart phone. The sound quality is not great but I hope the picture gives some impression of the amazing illuminated dome in the Buddha Palace at Lingshan near Wuxi. Since the end of the last blog there have been 2 weeks of school summer camp farewell gatherings George39s birthday </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Wuxi/blog-736637.html</link>
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                    <title>Donkey's leg removed by polyglot</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwriteI decided to put a smaller selection of pictures on the main album link above a more manageable selection for people with limited time to spare. The other albums are there if you still want to have a look...where were we at the end of the last blog Still gobsmacked by the scenic beauty  sheer audacity of the Plank Walk arou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Guangxi/Guilin/blog-733496.html</link>
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                    <title>Walking on air in Zhangjiajie</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwriteChinaHunanSummer202012..I may consider Avatar a 3D movie with 2D plot  characters but the area used as a backdrop for the alien world in the film is worth seeing. I visited Zhangjiajie in Hunan province during the winter holiday but fog  low visibility gave only tantalising glimpses of the Wulingyuan national park  Tianmen</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Hunan/Zhangjiajie/blog-732015.html</link>
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                    <title>The best Dam Jam in the world</title>
                    <description>There are more  mostly different photos on https251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwriteChina320Gorges2012 ..with Bruce  Kerry visiting from Melbourne I need to be a little more organised in my travel plans than I might ordinarily be. I have accommodation names  dates printed out English  Chinese of course plus carefully planned train connections. I shouldn39t be so di</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Chongqing/Chongqing/blog-730443.html</link>
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                    <title>I can't stand ugly women</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..the manbag is to some people a contentious issue. It39s just another name for a handbag after all  might look a little well effeminate. I tend to rely on cargo pants to carry around the increasing amount of life39s essentials phone electronic translator pens various cards etc. However Chance Neale  I at La Mian </description>
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                    <title>Sleep walk you're a bloody idiot</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwriteclick on the photos to enlarge..you39d think after three years here I39d be used to the alien dynamic of road rule observance  the corresponding lack of the same in China. However it39s still difficult to cope with the assumption that for traffic lights red  green are just pretty colours that change to add variety </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-722607.html</link>
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                    <title>The colour of happiness</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..a visa to go to China Should be easy but my friends from Melbourne Bruce  Kerry have been working hard for theirs for their planned trip at the end of June  into July. They39ve jumped through a few hoops while I39ve been trying to organise trips  accommodation  plan travel from Chongqing through Hunan  down to Gu</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-721125.html</link>
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                    <title>Jesus Regain consciousness father</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..Paul makes the observation that it39s extended exposure to the people around you seeing the layers peeled in chance encounters observations  conversations that makes life rewarding  interesting. This is prompted by a recent breakfast conversation exploring the paranormal  Mike39s revelation that his interest at one </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-716416.html</link>
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                    <title>Return to the Bitch from Hell</title>
                    <description>New photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..China39s population growth has slowed dramatically due to the one child policy far lower than most fully... developed countries. It still means adding an extra 10 million or so per year probably around the population of Greece or Belgium. However there are also over 100 million migrants from the country to the cities </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Jiangsu/Yangzhou/blog-714851.html</link>
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                    <title>The Leaning Tower of Tiger Hill</title>
                    <description>Zhouzhuang  Suzhou photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwriteChinaZhouzhuangSuzhou2012Other photos onhttps251.photobucket.comalbumsgg311draftwrite..Zhouzhuang is small canal town about an hour by bus from Suzhou or north west from Shanghai. After Chen Yifei an artist from Zhouzhuang living in the USA painted Memories of Hometown in 1984 it was bought by</description>
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