http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/the-occidental-tourist/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from the occidental tourist en-us Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:25:03 +0000 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:25:03 +0000 Hello allWell here I am back in Dalian China for another funfilled trip. This time I will be here for about 5 months to study the Mandarin language some more at the same university I studied at last year Dalian University of Foreign Languages.This is my first blog entry and although I really enjoyed making the blogs last year this time I won't be doing so many or doing so many videos. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/Dalian/blog-315344.html Hello everyoneWith the Olympics approaching in China I anticipate more people will be reading this blog. I want to provide some info one last time before I close out this blog.I call this the must read post because it deals with something most travelers may have with them portable electronic devices.In the hotels in China it seemed there was about a 5050 chance that the electrical outlets http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-252794.html I am home.Since returning I have gotten some emails about where I stayed in Beijing and how to get around so I decided to post some helpful information for future Beijiing travellers.The Shuttle bus pictures are two sides of a brochure that can take you from the airport to the cool part of Beijing near Tiananmen square and stuff.The GOTOhotel pictures are the brochure of the hotel I stayed at.. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-204441.html Hi everyone... we arrived in Beijing today got checked into our hotel that Miao's friend booked for us and it is awesome The hotel is a bit on the expensive side for Beijing 260 Yuan 35 but it is in a great location and within walking distance of Tiananmen Square. It also has free internet in every room so I am using my laptop to make this blog entry.Miao's friend has really been a l http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Beijing/blog-194097.html Hi Everybody can't talk long. I am in Fuxin with Miao and her parents. We are staying in their apartment and we have basically been eating every lunch and dinner with various relatives... it has been very interesting. They have been very gracious to me and treat me very well. It is really nice in this city. It is small but very populated. For the blog I have pictures only this week as I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Fuxin/blog-193328.html In the city of Shenyang NEW VIDEOThis past weekend fri and sat night Miao and I stayed in Shenyang the captial of Liaoning province.We didn't come to Shenyang specifically to visit the city but rather because it is on the way to Miao's hometown and she has two lifelong friends that live in the city. I arrived in the city sort with pretty neutral expectations. Dalian is a beautiful coastal http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Shenyang/blog-191761.html Last Day in DalianToday Miao and I will be packing up our luggage and getting ready to leave. Friday morning we get on the train and head up to Shenyang the capital city of Liaoning province.We will be in Shenyang for two days then take another train to Miao's hometown of Fuxin where we will stay all next week.I am very excited about this second half of the trip. I will get to spend some time http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-190209.html UPDATE ON MY TRAVEL BLOG plus a NEW VIDEOHi everyoneFirst just want to let you know that travelblog.org suffered a memory failure and the guy yes the ONE guy that runs travelblog.org did not properly have his backup mechanisms in place so all of my former travel blogs have been wiped out. I am back blogging here though because while this site was down I investigated the alternatives a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-188898.html My Travels in ChinaBill ConradNEW VIDEODry Run Video for the Dalian BEER FESTIVALAll of my videos up until now has just been me editing and dressing up raw 1stperson footage. For the next part of my trip I want to include some reporter on the scene type of videos where I cover aspects of China or certain events... more like what you would see on a travel channel on cable.Enter sid http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-187304.html Here is the movie of my class field trip. My Chinese class took a field trip on Friday to Dalian's Labor Park. Made a video of the day. It's about 13 minutes long and it shows the beauty of the park and all the different things people go to the park to do. Met some Americans from Missouri that had lived in Dalian for 5 months or so and they love it here. They are at the end of the movie. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-184110.html Saturday July 14 630 am. click here to see my new YouTube video from Dalian First full day in Dalian is history. We started out going to the free breakfast at our hotel. It was not what I expected. Lots of green salty vegetables a few of which were according to my friend Miao from the sea. Miao seemed to enjoy her breakfast as did the other 75 people that were waiting for the http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-181145.html Well I am here. Got some great photos and video already but in this internet cafe the computers are very slow and my laptop battery is about to run out so I only got a couple of quick things to share. Beijing was smoggy flying in. Made L.A. look like the wild blue yonder. Some coolie kid that would not take no for an answer lead me to my connecting flight then tried to extract some bogus ch http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Liaoning/Dalian/blog-180623.html Ni hao Chinese for helloWell here is the new location of my travel blog to China. I will be leaving next week for almost 7 weeks in China primarily in Dalian and Beijing with a few little stops along the way. I am going to keep this post short so I can see how this looks and if you want to subscribe to my blog then you will get updates whenever I add a post. Or if you don't want to s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nebraska/Omaha/blog-176164.html