http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/renatekersten/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from renatekersten en-us Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:06:35 +0000 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:06:35 +0000 Well I'll tell you about my last week in China. It's a bit late but as they say better late than never. Actually I'm already back in Paris for more than a week and I'm happy to tell you that I found a new home It's not as nice as my current one but it's ok and it's in a good neighbourhood. Ok so my last week. The day after the typhoon Heidi and Jessy took me to a place where they sold electr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-431697.html Hi Well it seems like I'm going to come back from China earlier. I've received an email telling me that I'm really gonna be kicked out of my room from August 31th... So I have to be in Paris before that to move and I have to start searching for another place to live. I just changed my flight to August 18th so I'm going back in a week alreadyThe past week has been great Heidi is showing me a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Taizhou/blog-426637.html Hi Here another update although I didn't do too much the past week... First I passed two days in Shanghai chilling a bit. The 28th I had coffee with a girl from Hong Kong went to the Shanghai museum and then I was a bit lazy and actually went to the cinema to see Harry Potter in 3D haha. In the evening I experienced the Shanghai sightseeing tunnel which I found a bit of a anticlimax. But then http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Zhejiang/Taizhou/blog-425496.html Hey hey I see it's been a while... Thanks for the messages again Good to hear from you guys. En wel een soort van geruststelling dat jullie t zelfde probleem hadden met de simkaart Han I'm indeed in Shanghai now But got a bit sick here... Well I'll just start where I was left first Emei Shan...Stairs stairs and more stairs...After Chendu we took the bus to Emei Shan a Buddhist mountain http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-422608.html Hi Thanks for the messages It's nice to hear from you Just a short message because we're having a busy schedule of seeing a lot in a short time where was I Ah hanging monastery yes. The 7th we went to this monastry built on the side of a mountain. We met a Chinese English teacher who also went there so that made it easy The monastery was in the middle of the mountains There used to b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-418883.html We found an internet cafe again. We're in Datong now I think far away the dirtiest and ugliest city I've ever seen in my life. But first my update for the past days. My last message ended at the great wall I see so a lot to tell...Dancing in the parkThe next day day 5 we went to the station in the morning to buy traintickets for Hohhot Inner Mongolia. We moved to another hostel closer to the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-415726.html Hi Already a new update. We're still in Beijing but we slightly changed plans we're going to inner mongolia tonight We're not sure how many internet cafe's we'll find there so we thought we'd better write something now... I'll try to keep it a bit shorter this time Monday we didn't do much as the internet cafe took quite some of our time We just went to a hutong with some little shops an http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-414124.html Hi guys Thanks for the comments. It might seem like it doesn't work but somehow I have to accept them before they appear and still 2 comments seem to not appear sorry I don't know why... But I got them thanks Arrival in BeijingSo now I'm in Beijing My flight was ok there was a little delay in Paris due to an electricity fallout but I still got my flight in London. On the way to China I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-413238.html Ni HaoI'm almost leaving Friday 26th I'm flying from Charles de Gaulle and then I'll be in China for 25 month I'll meet Dian saturday in Beijing and we'll travel around for one month. We don't have a detailed plan yet but I'm sure we're going to see a lot of cool places Then Dian will fly back to Holland and I'll meet my friend Xu Jing Heidi I'll visit her parents in a town south of Sh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Ile-de-France/Paris/blog-411424.html