Monday 27th July 2009 Qingdao

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Monday 27th July 2009 Qingdao
We got up about 9.30, you tend to wake up early in the dorms as there are people moving about from about 7am, very glad we didn’t have to do them anywhere else, they are fine if you are traveling on your own though I’d say. We had a bit of breakfast and then we were able to change into our new double room and shower in our own bathroom which was great. Mary wasn’t feeling too good, think the prawn in China don’t go with her too well so we took it easy for a few hours and then headed to the Tsing Tao brewery which I think is the biggest in China. It’s a good beer anyhow that’s all I know for sure. We got the public bus out and amazingly the nice bus driver shouted at us when it was time to get off. The exhibitions themselves are fairly well done, English is well catered for and they have some interesting displays, they have an entire room dedicated to the chairman meeting so and so, and picking up this award, all very Asian company politics and the like. You are brought to a very interesting part then thought, the actual working bottling plant. You see the empty bottle coming up getting filled and corked, labeled and boxed. It’s all a big conveyor belt system with a couple of guys just pushing things along and quality checking to

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