http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/zacandsof/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from zacandsof en-us Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:30:17 BST Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:30:17 BST Well shall we get the rest of the Beaurocratic Inertia out of the way first Sofrsquos company went bankrupt. Well as bankrupt as a company can get in China. They told us this the day we arrived back from Australia our last short stint see the last blog if you havenrsquot already. The last 2 months have involved many a fight to try and get paid arguing with stupid middle management and http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/XiCheng-District/blog-279516.html Our facebook friends will know exactly what this blog is about. So you can skip this paragraph. To everyone else In an attempt to make the Olympics a happy and foreignerfriendly affair the Chse Govnt from now on know as 'Norman' to save any more deportation attempts is trying to kick out most of the 250 000 happy expats living in Beijing. The scary thing is it's kinda working. S http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-270466.html Hey all.We couldn't resist another blog. Chinese new year in Beijing. Fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks fireworks and fireworks. And did we mention fireworksNo I don't think we d http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-249544.html .... though being a stick is a great advantage in China. Damn Georgie for fitting into all the clothes and shoes she tried onIt's been a while. A lot has happened... here be an overviewFirstly a thought from Harry Potter.Everywhere in Beijing is like number 12 Grimmauld place. As soon as you walk in any door picture frames start yelling at you. And the house elf is grumpy old sod. No seri http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-239818.html Once upon a time Boris and Doris the rabbitshares whatever there's only one chinese translation were living in the Forest of Wu. Life was peaceful. The mornings slipped away with noses in books intelligent discussions on the inverse perceptions of the past and future and sweeping generalisations of anything outside the forest. A homemade meal greeted the pair daily of unleavened tuna and http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-222572.html Jeez. We were worried there for a while. They took away our barbeque Not actually our barbeque but the nightly outdoor barbeque that we regularly go to called chuanr. Anyway they took it away. Who The people who may be censoring this blog that's who. Won't mention any names. Get thisIn an attempt to prove that Beijing is a suitable city for the olympics 'some people' took some 'random' sa http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-204190.html For those of you who know us well you probably won't believe us when we tell you that during this last week we bought a couch. Yes BOUGHT. We paid for a couch. We didn't just wander the streets with a troupie and a trailer looking for a free bit of cushioning for which to plant our arses on. We actually went to a shop chose a couch chose a colour and size and paid for it after bargaining of http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-191167.html Hey all. Imagine a world where Gordon's Gin is only A11 a bottle. Nice. Then imagine a world where tonic water costs much the same. Bugger. Oh well. It's Zac to start off first on this entry. So are you all going in the City to Bay run on Sunday September 16 I am. Well replace 'City' with 'a treadmill in our local gym in Beijing' and 'Bay' with 'that same treadmill in our local gym' and jus http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-180296.html A computer at last with emphasis on AT LAST. It has been many a phonecall in chinese regarding various unknown computer terms landlords and computer technicians visiting our house and general anger in the vicinity of the laptop but we're here. We don't have heaps to say that's a change we hear you all say but we do want to show off our apartment We have learnt our lesson about english http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-176155.html Mrs CIt sums up the life here. Night time. During the day the weather is hot hot hot but when the sun goes down the place buzzes Street vendors appear selling books jewellery clothing and food.... all of which must be resisted until the first paycheck arrives BuggerThe quirkiness of this city never ends. Everyday there is something else that surprises us and makes us laugh. We went to IKEA http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-169731.html It's good to be back in the wu. That is the suburb of beijing just outside the fourth ring road directly north of xizhimen for those who know their beijing geography and about twenty km or so we think northish of tiananmen for those who don't. This is the area we stayed in when we were here last and it's all hapnin now. Yay However beijing internet cafes really don't like usb drives b http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Beijing/Wudaokou/blog-166185.html Tallinn to UBzacandsof So you got yourself another drink yet As for all you melbourne braggers about how crazy the weather is in your fine city Ulaanbaatar known as UB has surpassed all your stories. Yesterday it snowed 3 times kinda blizzard like horizontal snow with razor sharp chilling winds at hurricane speeds. And in between each burst of snow the sun came out the wind stopped and http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar/blog-161943.html ....cos trains rock Greetings all. As they would say in Russian 10851091 107410861090 10841099 1080 10891085108610741072 10741089109010881077109010801083108010891100 10751085 108010821089 108010821089 108010821089 10851086 10851072 1101109010861090 10881072 http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar/blog-159240.html Sal was right about the Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring 'Well that is unless you call over a thousand bucks a week shoestring'. Nonetheless as we hit the end of Adventure no. 1 Europe we thought we'd give a bit of a summary. This computer is cool we have just realised because you can change the nationality of the keyboard except it keeps defaulting to hungarian. So Happz Euro http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Estonia/Tallinn/blog-155724.html Untitledzacandsof Wow. What decisions we have to make in Tallinn. I hope we don't keep up this stress forever. 1. We have to get out of bed. Do we get up at a 11am b 12pm c1pm 2. We go to the best ever pancake restaurant for a cheap breakfast. Do we a order the champignon and blue cheese b order the bacon and smoked cheese c order the raspberry and condensed milk d order the chicke http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Estonia/Tallinn/blog-154872.html Hi All I think we have just hit our peak of gastronomic adventures When we first arrived in Warsaw and met up with my cousin Anja we asked her where the best place was to eat polish food she said at Zofia's We would like to share with you the feast that i had at my cousin Zofia's house. Unbelievable And we thought we were fat before Here is a rundown 1pm First course consisted of http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Poland/Masovia/Warsaw/blog-153206.html Untitledzacandsof It's very difficult to know what tone to strike with this blog. On one hand we want to discuss the continued intestinal adventures and by that we mean the amazing state of the food we've eaten not the state of ourzac's bowels which by the way are not all that amazing but on the other it's been an intense few days seeing the cold war museum the official jewish memorial in http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Poland/Masovia/Warsaw/blog-152229.html We realise that we've written again so soon but a its been an exciting day b what else is there to do when you're stuck in a forest and c we're attempting to keep up with the amount of entries that ana and chas are doing. Not going to achieve c. Also we're letting you know that we're still alive and cunningly outwitted the axe murderers last night by being smart not running up the stair http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-150408.html Untitledzacandsof And just as you were all expecting the title of this blog to be related to food or alcohol we surprise you and ourselves actually We booked ourselves into a pretty standard sounding hostel in Berlin and we have found ourselves in a forest. Yes a forest. With wild boar. In a building that kinda looks like the hut at Lake Placid in 'Friday the 13th'. Complete with a dam that m http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-150043.html Untitledzacandsof We will start this blog by saying in advance that french keyboards suck so apologies for the typos... So substitute 'q's for 'a's 'z's for 'w's and most ''s for 'm's. qnd vice versq. Our lqst entry zqs fro Lqgos can you read that. After soqking up the beqch qtosphere ze hqd THE BEST chicken of our lives Soe of you qy hqve received qn eqil telling you qbout this d http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/France/Aquitaine/Bordeaux/blog-146816.html