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Wed, 3 Oct 2007 | By emadilema | Views [613]
Word of advice: If you are going to up and leave all your friends and move to the other side of the world - have 1 farewell say goodbye and bugger off!!! I decided to stage a series of events over about 2 weeks which means almost every day for 2 weeks ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Wed, 3 Oct 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1137]
The subway train system in Shanghai is actually pretty good, it's cheap, fast, easy to use and it is definately the best way of getting around.
The first problem is that there are so many people using it, particularly now because it is a Chinese national ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [8195] | Comments [1]
I popped into a cake shop today to buy something quick to eat. Just pick something up that looks good, pay and I'm all sorted I thought. As I was browsing the cake labels (with only Mandarin characters on) I noticed that many of the buns had meat in ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | By travelheart24 | Views [1396]
Their names were Julie 1 & Mike 1, Julie 3 & Mike 3 (no kidding), Alf, Carin, and Rose and we have just had too much fun! I'm sorry if this traumatises my dear grandparents or parents, but I have not drank so much or slept so little in a very ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Tue, 2 Oct 2007 | By rprip | Views [426]
I failed to mention we made it to the middle of no where. Kashgar is one of the those places, historically speaking, which is really famous. During the silk trade, it was the city where people met every Sunday to trade from four countries bc of ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1983] | Comments [1]
I found The Bund today, it's amazing. The skyline on the eastern side of the river looks
terribly exotic. The downside, well there were lots of other tourists
about and
because of that there were lots of touts about too. "Hello, where do
you
come ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 | By daan | Views [1162]
Ni Hau! Zo, het backpacken is begonnen. Sinds ongeveer een week ben ik weg uit Sanya om mezelf onder te dompelen in het ware Chineze leven. Het was wel even moeilijk om Sanya te verlaten, want met sommige mensen had ik al veel meegemaakt en vriendschappen ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 1 Oct 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Photo Gallery
Photos taken while in Shanghai
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Sun, 30 Sep 2007 | By chinapies | Views [839]
Intrigued by the title? Yeersss. Well, nothing much
has happened this week. So I decided to spend some of this post
discussing the menagerie that is becoming our apartments. Hmm, where
to start... Ah yes, giant spiders. Once upon a time, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 | By cirenitram | Views [289]
It is hard to believe that I have been in Shanghai for 4 weeks. So
much has been compressed into such an abbreviated period of time, but I
guess that should come as no surprise in a city that packs so much into
such a small space.
My clinical ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [634]
The D31 train from Beijing to Shanghai was a world away from the dreadful CityRail in Sydney. After enduring a few years of pathetically slow and late or cancelled trains it was a refreshing change. There was plenty of room in 1st class, the seats ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 | By chinapies | Views [690]
WARNING: This post contains facts
(mostly), unlike other posts, which have been over-inflated reports
of misdemeanours which, in their original forms, hardly qualified as
newsworthy articles. However, this post contains no lies.
Ok, that ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [1446]
I arrived in Beijing last night feeling very tired. My plans for today were to have a brief stroll around Tiananmen square, to work out how to use the underground and to find the language centre where I shall be studying Mandarin. I wanted to set the ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 | By nomadnorrie | Views [563] | Comments [1]
Beijing airport is very expensive for things like maps, a tourist map of Beijing with both pinyin and Chinese characters is AUD$20. Around Beijing they are AUD$2. If you are thinging of coming to Beijing either arrive in Beijing with a map or buy one ... Read more >
Tags: Airports
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 | By thesanders | Views [872] | Comments [9]
Well, it has taken us a month in Shanghai to get acclimated, find secure footing with our new surroundings, new jobs and new marriage in order to get to the point where we will start an account of our experiences. Fortunately, ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
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