Tsing Dao brewery & museum

Oh I Do like to be Beside the Seaside

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November 11th 2012
This Friday we headed off from Jinan to QingDao. We had booked tickets through a train ticket agency for Friday morning leaving at 8-45am from Jinan East station on a D train. We had real trouble flagging a taxi down, it took about 10 minutes and we were going to be cutting it fine. We pulled into the car park of the station and I reminded Martin to get his passport out, which is w ... 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