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新疆日記: February 2008
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Sunday, 24 February 2008. Day 185: Episode 5. DAY 17 - QUFU = YANZHOU = JINING = ZHENGZHOU. DAY 18 - ZHENGZHOU = LUOYANG. And talk about us, justifying it with "they don't understand." Well actually, we do. SO we tell them. After two hours and the loss of feeling in one arm, we finally arrived, which was a huge relief. I've never been so close with strangers. We've also recently learnt that young children in China like firecrackers even more than teenagers in the UK like fireworks and vodka. Lovely.
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新疆日記: May 2008
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Friday, 9 May 2008. DAY 29 - CHENGDU. But when we got to the baby pandas, there was nothing to see. They were all still asleep indoors. We were slightly disappointed, so we followed signs for the 'teenage' pandas, and were once again disappointed. We wandered around the various panda enclosures for a bit, seeing nothing. But then suddenly out of the blue, we saw one! An adult, asleep, but still, a real panda! But before I tell you about that, watch this:. The central station was chaos. People EVERYWH...
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新疆日記: January 2008
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008. Day 155: Episode 2. Time for another installment in the Spring Festival extravaganza! DAY 4 - HOHHOT. We had decided to get up around 7 to have our first shower since Yinchuan (icky) and head out early to see everything we wanted to see. I didnt even hear Nikkis alarm, which she had turned off. So at 10:20 or so I dragged myself out of bed to discover we had no hot water. So no shower. Icky. Stupid Waitress: This is ship, this is beef (pointing at the menu). After exploring ther...
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新疆日記: DAY 183: Episode 4
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Friday, 22 February 2008. DAY 183: Episode 4. DAY 13 - HARBIN = CHANGCHUN = SHENYANG = DALIAN (or, the day of three provinces). On arrival at stupid pm in Dalian, we got in a taxi to the Jinjiang inn, and slept rather a lot. In a rather comfortable bed. Not that expensive, and really classy. Brilliant. DAY 14 - DALIAN = YANTAI. So as we had nowhere to sit, we decided to sit in the corridor. Have you ever heard the stories about how the Chinese over fill their boats and they sink? DAY 15 - YANTAI = JINAN.
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新疆日記: Day 165: Episode 3
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Monday, 4 February 2008. Day 165: Episode 3. DAY 7 - TAIYUAN = PINGYAO. Not so bad, we think. But it was so crowded I could barely breathe. How naive I was, that was not crowded (see day 18). Anyway. Eventually, we got there, where a seriously obnoxious man kept saying Hello! And How many (hotel)? DAY 8 - PINGYAO = SHIJIAZHUANG. In the morning, we once again slept in until 8, but got ready quickly and went out to see the sights. Okay, the floor standing lamp. Still no? How about the desk lamp? At this po...
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新疆日記: October 2007
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Sunday, 28 October 2007. Day 67: Tales of Birthdays and Hallowe'en. So, it's been far too long since I've written in here, I do apologise. I kept meaning to, and then realising I had no time etc. So anyway, a week ago Friday/Saturday (I forget which day exactly) Nikki and I got a text from Eric who said, "We're going to a Mongolian Bar, wanna come? That kind of takes me up to date I think, so here's some photos from the birthday do on Thursday:. LTR:Me, 巴音耷拉,戴熙涵. LTR:Me, Nolan, Eric. Okay, so every week,...
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新疆日記: Day 229 - Long overdue next installment of travels :)
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Tuesday, 8 April 2008. Day 229 - Long overdue next installment of travels :). DAY 21 - WUHAN武汉 = XI'AN西安. As per usual we went to the train station first to dump our bags (I wonder how much we spent on left luggage? And gave me her camera. We wondered how long they'd sat there waiting. But no, there's a wall between 18 and 19. So I just went to sleep until the morning. Exciting. DAY 22 - XI'AN 西安. Quite tired, we just went home and went to bed, planning to get up early and see lots of sights. Nicki: Frie...
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新疆日記: June 2008
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Sunday, 29 June 2008. Day 310: Lamas and Trains and Bears, Oh my! Okay, I know. But you see, my computer is broken, so I can't go online as much at the moment. So here's a massive update on the rest of travels and some of what has happened since then. The next day, we did the Kumbum monastery, famous for it's yak butter statues, which really weren't as amazing as I expected, but they were still incredible. Having seen that, we were ready to get back to Lanzhou to get the train back to Urumqi. For lantern...
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新疆日記: Day 248 - Another long overdue update (I'll get better, I promise)
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Sunday, 27 April 2008. Day 248 - Another long overdue update (I'll get better, I promise). DAY 26 - XI'AN 西安 = LESHAN 乐山. In the morning, two incredibly irritating girls disturbed our technique to stave off boredom - sleep. They were screaming, running back and fore and constantly shouting mispronunciations of "mother," "father" and "sister." I was ready to throttle them. They were 20 as well. DAY 27 - LESHAN乐山 = CHENGDU成都. But this one actually was - born and raised in The Big Smoke 'til the age of 9, t...
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新疆日記: September 2007
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Friday, 28 September 2007. Day 37: I'm online! Long time no post, sorry! But the reason for not posting last week was my illness. I was ill for an entire week, it was awful, I could eat, and it stayed down, but it worked through me rather quickly. But that's all fine now. Wow, so long without blogging and I've run out of things to say. Oh well. I'll start updating more regularly now that we have internet in our apartment :D. Saturday, 15 September 2007. Day 24: Finally registered! Oh, one last update, my...
