Tianjing & Shanhaiguan - Wallsend without the Newcy Brown

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April 7th 2010

Published: April 8th 2010

The Chinese festival of QingMingJie or Tomb Sweeping Day, is exactly as you would expect. It is a day to care for graves and remember the owners. It also allowed us to take advantage of a three day weekend. TianJin TianJin is linked to BeiJing with the world’s fastest intercity train - the 120km is covered in 29min at speeds up 300km/h. Though of course from the futuristic world of high speed t... Read Full Entry

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Jeraldo and the Windmills

Jeraldo

I had been intending on solely writing my own journal during my time outside the Shires, but I love reading other people's travel stories, so I thought I'd add my penny to proceedings. I've no expectations as to who will be interested enough to read it but I'm guessing my main audience will be procrastinating friends and family wondering where I've bogged-off to and who fancy reading something other than TFL's latest update on engineering works on the Bakerloo line... For those who don't know I have a 9 month AIESEC internship in Beijing with a Chinese company and hop... full info

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