Destination: China

Spring Festival Holiday Adventure - Part Three

Sun, 27 Mar 2016 | By zioned | Views [350]

Next day, Ryo got us to the train station for our overnight stay in Osaka before heading back to Taiwan. Managed to navigate our way to our ryokan (traditional style) hotel with tatami room and public bath. Settled in and then headed out to the nearby ... Read more >

Shenzhen center

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 | By enteromorfa | Views [269]

In the weekend my wife is arrived and we've been in the new center of Shenzhen, Futian. It's supermodern, half of the locations are underground and it passes froma  commerical center to another. Inside there are many restaurants. Yes, sure, nothing ... Read more >

Spring Festival Holiday Adventure - Part Two

Tue, 8 Mar 2016 | By zioned | Views [320]

After spending the morning overwhelmed by the 1,000 golden Buddha statues in the Sanjusan shrine, we bullet trained to Nagoya and met Ryo and Narumi. Had a great dinner of shabu shabu at their place, played games and made plans for the next leg of our ... Read more >

China-Shenzhen-PingDi

Tue, 8 Mar 2016 | By enteromorfa | Views [312]

Arrived in PingDi. Not so pleasent location since is basically a production area, far from the city center, but is ok, quite cheap. I'm here to work for QC and learn from my colleague Dorian, albanian guy. The apartment is with a squat toilet, same ... Read more >

Photos: Spring Festival Holiday Adventure - Part One

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 | By zioned | Photo Gallery

Spring Fesival Holiday Adventure - part One

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 | By zioned | Views [473]

Well, the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year holiday finally arrived. Nanjing was showing signs of holiday festivity preparations – stores were packed with special New Years treats, shoppers were busy stocking up on all the necessities for their ... Read more >

Beijing Ten Years Later

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 | By sborto | Views [964]

After more than five years living in the Chinese capital, today is the last night that I will spend here before going back to Barcelona, my hometown. Everything is ready: I've vacated my apartment; I've sent all the junk I've accumulated during ... Read more >

Tags: beijing, china

Photos: So far

Sat, 6 Feb 2016 | By aeyryl | Photo Gallery

First Day in the PRC

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 | By spavao | Views [316]

Well, the sun was out and the smog was very low by Chinese standards on my first day here in China. My host sister Song Yu (English name Rayna) is so sweet. She spent 3 days doing her vacation homework before I got here so that she could be my tour ... Read more >

Shanghai/Christmas - Where's MY culture shock?

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 | By zioned | Views [402]

As I headed into the holiday season – the first time to be away from the states at this time in many years – I was expecting a heavy dose of homesickness and culture shock. We had been teaching all new students in our program in Utah about ... Read more >

Photos: Shanghai/Christmas 2015

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 | By zioned | Photo Gallery

Photos: Chen Clan Ancestral Hall

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 | By pranalim | Photo Gallery

Headaches & Heartaches

Mon, 23 Nov 2015 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [752]

Whilst I definitely found some good in China, across the board it's problematic, disorganized, and bureaucratic. All along I've said with China "if there isn't a rule they make a rule, and if there isn't a problem they create a problem." The language ... Read more >

Snowy Beijing

Sun, 22 Nov 2015 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [727]

The DPRK was such a fantastic experience! And I never expected the vibe of a college field trip. Yesterday morning we all returned to Beijing aboard Air Koryo 151 and at the baggage carousel we said our goodbyes. Some people caught connecting flights ... Read more >

Tokyo Trip Part Two

Sat, 21 Nov 2015 | By zioned | Views [372]

We met the next morning and headed to a French bistro for their breakfast set – amazing assortment of breads, pastries and jams with good, strong coffee to start the day. On the way there, we passed a street performance in front of a department ... Read more >