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Nanning - Monopoly town and "Do you think I'm pretty?"

February 7th 2007
More than expected. First impression of the train station: small town, just three platforms! Two hours later, Aris & I felt like being in Shanghai: a whole new business district, build up within the last two years, so new that even the “Lonely Planet Guide” of 2005 doesn’t say any word about it. This part creates a huge new city with another city center besides the “old” town. Nannings p ... 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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Philipp Schaaf

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Blogging, that is losing your privacy by telling the world who you are, what you think, like, hate; telling it to strangers, who might never get in contact with you during the maybe 60-70 years of your live. But now, the fever caught me, too... Well, it's more for practical reasons: I begin to forget. To mix up events of the last trip with the current one. Then I might start to write a diary, but blogging has another big advantage: it's a great tool to keep friends updated without telling the same story a dozen times. And last but not least, I can excercise my English writing skills (as a Ge... full info

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