Even though Shanghai sits on the Pacific (or East China Sea for you pedants), there ain’t much beach action going on here. Seems like they’ve used every inch of shoreline for container ports, factory waste dumpage or expo grounds. So it being summer and all, some friends and I decided to trek out to Shengsi […]
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A part of my excursion to the nation’s capital during the Labour Day weekend was a little side trip to the recently refurbished Qianmen Street. Qianmen means front gate, cause the street runs right in front of the front gate to a certain infamous square and the Forbidden City. Naturally I picked a day of […]
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A week ago, my friend and I decided that we’d had enough of the perpetual routine of visiting the same three bars in Qingdao. In order to break the cycle we decided suddenly Saturday afternoon to head to the train station and jump on the next train to Weifang. Why Weifang? It was close, only […]
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In Tianjin this sign constitutes false advertising. This weekend I made a quick jaunt up to Tianjin (or Tientsin for you British Imperial types) with friends for a mission with two primary objectives. This first objective was to examine a factory and make sure that the products they made didn’t spontaneously combust after one use; […]
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Qingdao’s luxurious Meng Gu Lu Bus Station This weekend I took my first Chinese long distance bus ride up to the city of Changyi to visit my Japanese friend. I’ve wanted to visit him now for a while for a number of reasons. 1)Partying at the same two expat bars in Qingdao gets mighty lame […]
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Just this past week I made another random journey with a friend to the only beach in the Qingdao area that I haven’t yet been to. This beach was at the entrance to Laoshan Mountain. My friend called me up out of nowhere and figured that despite the encroaching smog, it would be a good […]
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Sunday I was invited by my landlord to go see Laoshan Park, which is this large park type tourist trap by the famous Laoshan Mountain about an hour and then some outside of Qingdao. Of course in preparation for the day, I had to get tanked the night before so that I would be in […]
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Aye! She’s a fine vessle indeed This weekend, for no reason in particular, I thought it would be interesting to meet some people I had never met, in a city I’ve never been to, all to wind up doing something I’ve painfully experienced oh so many times before. I had met a friend through the […]
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If you go to China, the one thing everyone will ask you about is if you saw the Great Wall. It is definitely China’s most famous landmark and 100% awesome. But visiting it isn’t as easy as you would think for something that’s 4000 miles long. Unless you’re a hardcore backpacker type, or you’re out […]
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