The Great Wall at Simatai and Jinshangling

May 29th 2009
So it's time for a long overdue update. We've now been away from home for two hundred days and I can't believe that we're still hardly missing it. The routine of teaching all weekend and three weekday evenings has meant that the time has zoomed by and now we have not much more than three months left in China. Having some visitors from home has helped of course. Summer has come to Zibo with ... read more

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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

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tristanandcharlie

We're travelling from the UK to China to take up a teaching post in Shandong Province from Jan-Sept 09. We leave the UK in November 08 and fly to Tallinn, Estonia. We then cross the boarder in to Russia and travel to St. Petersburg then Moscow where we'll set off on the Trans-Siberian Railway. At Lake Baikal we will head south through Mongolia; arriving in Beijing by Christmas. In January we will make our way to Zibo where we will be teaching English until September. We'll try and keep our blog up to date. Hope you enjoy reading it! Update: We have a new job and we're staying in China ... full info

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