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View from our Balcony  
   

View from our Balcony

Every morning we would enjoy a coffee as we leaned over the marble railing watching the morning awake from the sound of 11 million people starting a new day. In the evening, we enjoyed a bottle or two of Tsingtao Beer and ate shelled peanuts or oranges bought from a local vender earlier in the day.
Getting there ...

May 30th 2007
Well this marks the beginning of our journey. Actually the journey started the Summer of 2005 when we went to China as English teachers and lived in Southern China in an amazing place of 11 million people in the city of Guangzhou. Teaching English was an incredible experience as was the opportunity to live and experience a culture without a tour guide. It was odd that we set our alarm clocks ... read more
Asia » China » Guangdong » Guangzhou

Chinese Flag 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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