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17 November 2007
I woke to a cool grey day. Maybe even brown. Very often the sky in China is brown due to pollution, desert dust or whatever other reason. I only have today at Guilin and wanted to take in the various sights. First up, I climbed up to Solitary Beauty Peak. The Peak is one of […]
16 November 2007
Kim and I spent the morning in Hong Kong looking for his model car shops. Nothing opens till about 1100 so it was fruitless. After a nice buffet lunch at his hotel, I left some of my luggage at the hotel reception and made my way to the airport for my 1 hour plus flight […]
6 October 2006
Maternal great grandfather’s home Breakfast at the hotel was a repeat of the greasy fare from two days ago. I skipped the greasy rice and noodles and settled for congee and greasy vegetables. Even the pickles were greasy but they went quite well with the congee, as did the very fine ikan bilis. We had […]
5 October 2006
Getting to Zhao An Step-dad woke me up at 0510 because he thought I should have been up for my daytrip to Chan Village in Zhao An. But I had taken care of my wake-up time with an alarm for 0545. I took a taxi to the bus station. With the ride only taking five […]
4 October 2006
Gulangyu gone wrong The Chinese breakfast at the hotel was very greasy. But it didn’t put off the domestic tourists from filling up big-time on the food. After breakfast, we headed out to try some change SGD to CNY at the Bank of China across the road. I was surprised it was open being a […]
3 October 2006
Above: Chinese Opera performer on the street in Xiamen. Leaving Singapore Today I take Mum and step-dad to Xiamen for a little holiday. Despite booking the SilkAir ticket online, electronic ticketing wasn’t available and we had to collect the ticket from a counter before proceeding to check-in. The flight 1120 flight left slightly late and […]
11 May 2005
All aboard! We woke at 0545 for check-out at 0630, in order to check-in for our rail adventure at Beijing West station across the road. We had some muesli in the room for breakfast before setting off. At the impressive-looking station, our luggage were x-rayed before we entered and turned left into the international waiting […]
10 May 2005
It was drizzly and cool today. We had woken up early to get into the swing of an early start for tomorrow morning. And besides we wanted to squeeze in some minor sights after doing only a half-day yesterday. First up was the Lama Temple. This began as an imperial palace in the late 1600s. […]
9 May 2005
Above: Tiananmen Square as viewed from the Tiananmen Gate Tower of the Forbidden City. Getting going Rather unusual of us, we had 11 hours in bed and woke around 0800. Breakfast wasn’t included in the hotel rate so we had a light feed of muesli before heading out. For today, we didn’t feel like the […]
8 May 2005
Leaving Osaka Today we are Beijing-bound. We woke around 0600 but that was fine. The sun rises very early in Osaka this time of year. We hurriedly left the hotel at 0635 by taxi rather than by foot, for the railway station. We made good progress by making the 0700 train and arrived at the […]