Archive | January, 2008

You wanna buy a watch?

By on January 31, 2008 in China, Part of a big whopping trip, Shanghai, Travel wanderings

Well, we’re stuck in Shanghai. We thought we were being a little precious and perhaps the the snow wasn’t that bad until our cable was finally reconnected, and CNN was full of stories about the once-in-a-century crazy weather and images of the prime minister apologising to the masses at train stations all over the south [...]

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White nights

By on January 28, 2008 in Beijing, China, Part of a big whopping trip, Shanghai, Travel wanderings

Well, I’m hoping this is all working as I can’t actually access my own blog from here. I must be a security threat. Well, we made it up the Wall. We were oh-so-proud of ourselves after getting a public bus out to Badaling, but we were in no way prepared for the cold. We encountered [...]

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China girl

By on January 27, 2008 in Beijing, China, Part of a big whopping trip, Travel wanderings

Yes, the Grand Olympic Tour is in full-swing yet again, and here I am at the host city for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing. It took me about a month to get the travel bug again. It would start with skimming through my photos, comparing flight prices on STA Travel, and flicking through Lonely Planet guides [...]

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