Around The World in (Substantially Less Than) Eighty Days
May 29th 2010 The train from Xian to Shanghai was a good welcome back to solo travel.
I was sharing my compartment with three generations of a family from Inner Mongolia and a Buddhist monk. Who, for the next 10 hectic hours managed to make me the talking point of the carriage. Using my basic mandarin, a phrase book, a rubbish dictionary and notes from my mandarin lessons we quizzed each other. On their own
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mason
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Green Bean Ice Cream ...
I have been trying to find that in the States (for 7 years) with no luck... I really miss those!!! (and for 1 RMB, too!) how I got here: stumbled onto your site in my roughly annual Google-ing of that ice cream.