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Published: September 25th 2008
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As usually, our little trip to Qinhuangdao didn't go very smoothly... Firstly, Kerstin had to wake me up in the middle of the night telling me she left her passport at school. Great! So after having exhausted our concierge's cell phone and the school's phone without getting a response, she decided to head over there herself.
Fortunately, he did wake up and she managed to get her passport after all.
Next morning, our flight to Beijing was leaving at 07:00. When we were standing at the check-in desk of Hainan airlines at 06:25 we were told to go over to the Air China desk.
With sleep still rubbing out of our eyes, we did as we were told..
Ofcourse she told us in turn that we were flying on Hainan, so send us back...
Here she started talking in Chinese about six - ten, six - ten. Puzzled, we looked on our E-ticket and shit.... realised we had been booked 2 weeks later on the 6th of October by our friend Ameli...
AArrrgghh!!! At first, it seemed we could fly anyway after paying the excess for changing the flight.
But the Hainan airlines office on Baita airport wasn't open,
so the only other option was to buy complete new flights, worth 330 Yuan each!
BUT... sometimes it's great to be a foreigner in China, because the guy simply changed our flight without us having to pay anything! YEAH!
After a comfortable bus ride in reclining leather seats (126 Yuan) we arrived from the intl. airport in Qinhuangdao.
So after a bit of lunch we went straight to the beach where it was quite a windy afternoon.
It was so nice to smell the salt of the ocean, I miss it sometimes here in Hohhot.
That evening we went to the party where I had some western whiskey that gave me an incredible headache for most of the next day. The kind where your brain gets squeezed every minute or so into the size of a pea...
Anyhow, we got the taxi to Beidaihe from where we walked along the beach back to Qinhuangdao.
Apparently, according to my friend who lived here for a year, along a stretch of the coastline, a whole bunch of great houses have been standing there for many years already without ever having been used!
I saw them, and I couldn't help but
Seaside houses
Unused...what a shame think what an inredible shame it was (and how if I would live in Qinhuangdao SO would squat in them in the summer months) and all that because of some stupid scandal about the installment of elictricity and/or water or something like that. What a waste of resources and nature. (bureacracy...aya...)
Just before the city, opposite the Yanshan university, inside an alleyway is a little cafe hangout called BeiBei's, recognisable by it's yellow walls and green wooden shutters.
If you're ever in the neighbourhood, check it out.
They do cheap cocktails, western foods and it's a great little hangout after a walk on the beach.
That night the train back to Hohhot left Qinhuangdao at 22:35, and although in the cabin next to mine (hardsleeper) there was a guy snoring in an un-understandably disgusting way, I actually managed to sleep for a good part of the night and some hours in the morning.
A few days, and I'll be heading to Mongolia!
Looking forward to it,although it seems since our (2 day!) trip to Qinhuangdao temperatures have suddenly plummeted to pre-winter level!
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maria
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heeee!
Ben jij even gelukkig geweest met die vlucht naar Beiing!Mijn vriendje heeft ook een keer zoiets voor mij gedaan in ZA maar moest gewoon de volle pond betalen. He lieverd, hou het warm;-)of gaat het nog met de kou??..en bel je snel. Tut zussie