Destination: China

Coming up in June

Sun, 3 Jun 2012 | By wi-niko | Views [662]

June 2012 No longer will I just pass the days living in Shanghai but I am on the countdown of time in China. Every weekend in June is planned with travel and I'll tell you what to look for coming up. This past weekend June 2 I went to Xitang with ... Read more >

Tags: china

Xitang and the chicken

Sun, 3 Jun 2012 | By wi-niko | Views [1155]

3 June 2012 Saturday, June 2, Hayley, Nico, and I met up to take a bus on a day trip to Xitang, Zhejiang. Only an hour bus ride about 70km from Shanghai, ancient Xitang is a well known water canal town. It is mostly known for covered walkways and ... Read more >

Tags: chicken butcher, qianshi gao, tom cruise, water town, xitang

Photos: Xitang

Sun, 3 Jun 2012 | By wi-niko | Photo Gallery

Spring Festival Holiday around China 2012

Wed, 30 May 2012 | By locomocean | Views [631]

I guess there’s no other way, than to start where I left off - January 2012. So, after turning in our mid-year grades, collecting our travelling money (The university gives us NZ$400 each as holiday travel – nice of them huh?) ... Read more >

Changing Times....

Tue, 29 May 2012 | By oryxx | Views [694]

I’ve been a bit slack with this blog lately, partly because things here have been progressing in more or less the same way, and partly because I’ve been busy looking for a job. I tend to get a bit obsessive about things (you’d never have guessed that ... Read more >

Just another week.....

Tue, 29 May 2012 | By oryxx | Views [715]

Well, here I am with only two weeks left! A lot of my practice time over the last couple of months has focused on the sword form. After the initial super-fast learning week with Sha Wei, there was a period of three or four weeks when I was more or less ... Read more >

Toy soldiers, Giant Pandas and cool crags!

Mon, 28 May 2012 | By lucyandtim | Views [1035] | Comments [1]

We waved goodbye to our local speaking guide in Beijing and headed off in search of Beijing West Railway station armed only with our train tickets and a page of useful phrases the reality of being in a 'proper' foreign country rapidly dawning on us. ... Read more >

Photos: Terracotta Warriors and Giant Pandas

Sun, 27 May 2012 | By lucyandtim | Photo Gallery

Photos: Beijing Beauties

Sun, 27 May 2012 | By lucyandtim | Photo Gallery

Month of May

Sun, 20 May 2012 | By wi-niko | Views [850]

20th May 2012 This past week I have had a little  party indulgence.  Monday and Tuesday I worked diligently to finish five outlines for press releases I will write next week.  Our contact for our client Henkel went on vacation so I was given Thursday ... Read more >

Tags: bbq, ktv, shanghai, sinan mansion beer festival, spring party

Beijing Beauties

Sat, 19 May 2012 | By lucyandtim | Views [692] | Comments [3]

As we landed at Beijing airport and passed through the 'foreigners' passport control station, we had a feeling that this tag might stay with us for a few weeks and come to haunt us. So far, we haven't been disappointed! On arrival in Beijing we were ... Read more >

Beijing China

Fri, 18 May 2012 | By fartandbelch | Views [921]

Friday 11 th May - arrive Beijing West station. Of course the train was on time. We woke for some unknown reason at 3.00am for a scheduled stop. We didn’t know, but it was Taiyuan, the place we had visited 6 years ago when Zac and Francine were ... Read more >

Photos: Beijing China

Fri, 18 May 2012 | By fartandbelch | Photo Gallery

Photos: Hong Kong

Mon, 14 May 2012 | By brettcooke | Photo Gallery

Hong Kong

Mon, 14 May 2012 | By brettcooke | Views [750]

It was a hasty retreat from Italy yet the five trains and one bus seamed to take forever. We traveled back to the chalet in France where we had left our snowboards and other gear and stayed for one night before jumping back on the train to St Pancras ... Read more >