Category Travels

370 Million Tourists in One Week!

When 1.3 billion people are on holiday at the same time for a whole week, it can get pretty chaotic!

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A Day in Colonial Gulang Yu

Spending the day walking around Gulang Yu was such a treat last Sunday! Gulang Yu is a small island just a 5-minute ferry ride from the island of Xiamen.

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Xiamen is preparing itself for a celebration. It is the mid-autumn festival here in China, one of the most important celebrations of the year. Don’t be confused, as we are end of September and you are thinking it is the…

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Blog Censure in China!?

Bloggers from Xiamen, China – like my friend Tina and I - are happy to post blog entries for you to enjoy (as long as we can guess the menus in mandarin), but guess what… we cannot read them ourselves!

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Chinese Food Etiquette

An evening at the restaurant with Chinese hosts... Food is coming, several dishes at once. We are taking nice portions of food: fish, meat, vegetables, soup…

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Museum of Tea Ware, Hong-Kong

During our last visit to Hong-Kong, it was great to discover the Museum of Tea Ware, which is located in Hong-Kong Park.

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Blind date at the Orient

Stories about a blind date at the Orient with ex-pats Tina and Mark.

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Exchanging Money Back to US dollars?

We had been warned not to exchange too much money into RMB because we won't be able to exchange back to US dollars.

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Enough Elbow Room?

With 1.3 billion people, this is a busy place. 49 cities of more than 1 million people, most of them you never heard about.

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Call 110 for English!

We foreigners who are totally unable to communicate here in the native language of this beautiful country can be saved from any situation by just dialing 110 and having access to a translator, right there on the phone.

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