NY dinner

Chinese New Year

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February 6th 2008
Time for Chinese New Year dinner...yippee! Incessant fireworks around the area all day. I've just zipped my new suitcase with a meagre 20kgs inside..I didn't think of the internal flights in China when I brought nearer 30 kgs from Hungary. Luckily Hailing can take some of it for me to Xi'an and Beijing. This afternoon we went to the supermarket, and I was kicking myself that I didn't bring my came ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more