Say what?

Unfortunately, it was closed. We had lunch in the hotel restaurant where no one spoke English and the menu was strictly Chinese characters. There was no pinyin so we couldn't even look up the names of the dishes although there were pictures. The chap in the red jacket thought the situation was very funny, as did we in retrospect. The fellow in the colourful vest was pulled out of the back room because he spoke "a little" English. Angi's look says all that needs to be said.

Blast from the Past - Shenyang 2008

March 25th 2010
This Blast from the Past is being written 18 months after the fact based on notes I made at the time. I have tried to make the comments reflect what we were thinking at the time. Of course, we are now so much more familiar with China that some of the events seem quite different in hind sight. But then what doesn’t? The start of the journey I have mentioned previously that the wife of ... 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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