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Beer by the bag in Qingdao

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July 1st 2009
We boarded our, space ship like, bullet train from Beijing to Qingdao (complete with blood stains on front from an unsuspecting railway crossing mammal of some description). If we were to take the Lonely Planet literally, which we did, we would have expected a quaint little seaside retreat which has been described as 'China's Switerzland'. We had pictured Qingdao, a former German settlement, as a ... 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