So to fill in the blanks… – Beijing Normal University, Lanhui Apartments, Beijing, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Beijing Normal University, Lanhui Apartments, Beijing, China So now this is the epic catch- up post! I’m sorry I haven’t posted all of this as it was going on, but with starting to settle down into classes, china blocking a lot of the internet and trying to get around that, and going on a lot of excursions- I haven’t had much of a chance! I’m going to write a re-cap post here about the main highlights. Then, I’ve already written something for Saturday going to the Great Wall, so I’ll post that next. So last we left off, I’d been here for about 3 or 4 days and I was just starting to figure things out. Here’s what happened next: Tuesday June 30th Beihai and Jingshan Parks I spent all day with my roommate Lauren and our friends Hwanny, Shasha, Cindy, Minji, and Difan. At first we were planning on going to the Summer Palace, but then decided to wait until a day we could spend more times there. So we headed out for our first bus adventure to Beihai and Jingshan Park. They’re right next to each other just north of the Forbidden City. Beihai Park was built by Genghis Khan (or so I was told) as an imperial garden, originally connected to the Forbidden City. The lake was dug out and added to the dirt dug out for the moat around the Forbidden City to make Jingshan Hill. We went on a perfect day because the sky was clear and blue all day! It was a great way to celebrate before our first day of classes. Beihai Park was beautiful. There were all kinds of temples and pagodas. The gardens were so lush and I really enjoyed the Empress’s get-away with ponds full of Koy fish. One thing I kept seeing were photo stands, where you pay a fee and get to take a bunch of pictures in traditional Chinese dresses. We didn’t buy them, but I’ve seen them at a few tourist places, so I might still on one of my next adventures. There were boats you could rent to go on the lake, but they were a little expensive and then we were running a little late so we decided to pass on that. We walked along the Five Pavilions on the northern shore. They jutted out into the water a little bit and were connected by little bridges. As you walked into each one, you ran into different groups of people doing different things. In the first pavilion, a woman was singing as two other women were performing some very traditional dance. In the next, a man offering to draw portraits tempted you by sketching on the ground with chalk on the end of a long stick. In the next, some older men and women sat around playing games. In the fourth, someone had a radio and there were couples dancing, just for fun.
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So to fill in the blanks… – Beijing Normal University, Lanhui Apartments, Beijing, China
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Louisa Frances Pesel and Embroidery Design
Jump to the full entry & travel map Nakatsu, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan Nakatsu is known for its fried chicken (kara-age から揚げ） and being the home town of the famous educator Fukuzawa Yukichi who is pictured on the Japanese 10,000yen bill. I had heard that there were opportunities for outdoor adventure here so my friend and I decided to go there from Oita City so we could find a bit of peace in nature for two days and one night.
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Nature Travels in Nakatsu- Laid back adventures – Nakatsu, Kyushu-Okinawa, Japan
Jump to the full entry & travel map San Salvador, El Salvador After leaving San Pedro I stopped in at Antigua for a few days to do some lose ends, mail some stuff home, buy a spanish exercise book so I can practice and a coffee perculator so I can make my own coffee in hostels and things. Had a few looks already when I’ve pulled that bad boy out, I think people think I’m a 60 year old man! Anyway, from Antigua I have to go to Guatemala City to get the bus to San Salvador.
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El Salvador – small country, big heart! – San Salvador, El Salvador
Soubrier Built in 1850 , initially specialized in reproductions, now entirely devoted to antiques … Rents items out to filmakers … Parisian Interiors Antique shop mannequin Gallerie Lafayette , Paris c. 1860 Made of wire, plaster, wood, metal and cloth… articulating arm… Ebay seller Eurostuff Maison Cote Ouest Fevrier-Mars 2009 Exhibits in the Palace of Diverse Industries, Sign above exhibits: “Maroquinerie–Gainerie.” Paris World Fair c.
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Articulating the past…
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sacramento, California, United States We left lovely San Fran and headed east to Sacramento. Passing through the JellyBelly factory on the way! Yum! A huge giant factory all devoted to JellyBellys, heaven! We bought some BellyFlops, Jelly Beans that didnt quite look normal, ha ha! This factory is cool because you can tour and they have all the Jelly Belly history and pictures made out of Jelly Beans. Did you know the blue Jelly Bean was made especially for Ronald Reagan when they were celebrating and they needed red, white and blue colors
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Food, glorious food! – Sacramento, California, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Berlin, Germany We started off the day early with a large breakfast. Taking Rick Steves’ advice, we ate at 7am in order to arrive at the Reichstag (German Parliament) early and avoid the lines. Even though we were in the first group to be admitted, it took about 25 minutes to get through security (metal detectors, etc.) Jake got the pat down, but no weapons were found. The Reichstag was originally built in the late 19th century as a home for the German government as established in 1871. It is the same building that mysteriously caught fire in 1933 just before Hitler’s selection as Chancellor General. It was not used by the legislature from 1933 until the 1990s (no Nazis or Communists), when after the reunification of Germany, Berlin was chosen to be the capital city once again.
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Lots of German History – Berlin, Germany
The author of this post, Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin , is a 2008 graduate of Harvard College in History of Art and Architecture and Italian Studies who works at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and continues to fuel his interest in contemporary art by attending exhibits wherever his travels take him. Before I knew it, I was implicated.
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Shepard Fairey’s iconoclasm at ICA Boston
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Lowongan Kerja Indonesia Terbaru 19 July 2009!
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ushuaia, Patagonia, Argentina With an empasis on the CHILLING! The gear we have brought form London has no effect what so ever on the antarctic breeze but we stand our ground refusing to buy more woolly things as we only need it for about a week. Layering is the name of the game…the backpacks are empty now because we are wearing just about every item we have! Most of this leg of the trip was pre-booked at our hostel in Buenos Aires…all except the flight we had to catch because we missed a connection bus due to slow going on the previous bus becuase of ice on the roads
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Chilling at the end of the world! – Ushuaia, Patagonia, Argentina
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hanoi, Vietnam Hanoi, “the city in a bend of a river,” was once named Thang Long (yup, just like the yummy restaurant in the avenues), or “The City of Soaring Dragons.” Found this interesting, as I’ve encountered images of soaring dragons quite recently – but those were in Clear Lake… Woke to an array of sounds this morning that seemed to crescendo by the minute…shopkeepers sweeping the remnants of the previous evening, motorbikes honking and zooming their way down the street and the loudspeaker chanting the national anthem and other daily rituals… Tackled all the hot spots in Hanoi today.
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Hangin’ in Hanoi – Hanoi, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Gulf of Alaska, Alaska, United States So the flight is scheduled for eighteen hours and change total, fifteen from LAX to Taipei (TPE) and another three and a half from TPE to Bangkok (BKK) after a two-hour plane change and layover. Two hours is likely too short to be looking for the kind of “stinky tofu” that bested Andrew Zimmern in his Bizarre Foods episode on Taiwan, but we’ll see
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2. South Side of the Sky – Gulf of Alaska, Alaska, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ayutthaya, Thailand Tohn and his wife Naya have been giving us the grand tour of Thailand and we’re fortunate and grateful to be so guided – especially when we see all the people loaded onto those huge, gaudily-colored tour buses and packed into the occasional open-air jitneys. The semi-forced sleep deprivation of yesterday handily dispatched any and all jet lag, and having had a solid, earplug-insured night’s sleep we’ve emerged from zombie status to the land of the living and are ready for some serious adventure. Today we’ve been promised a genuine Lara Croft-Tomb Raider type ancient temple or two, and despite the fact that the Ayutthaya municipality turns out to be one of the busiest (read: tourist-thick) destinations we’ve yet seen, the crowds are actually not too bad, the area is huge, and traveling with people who know the area as second nature means finding things we never would have on our own
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4. Seeking Lara Croft; Finding See-Saw-Ou – Ayutthaya, Thailand
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sharm El-Sheikh, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt Cairo & Luxor by flight from Sharm $525 Day 1: Go Egypt Travel representative will pick you up by air-conditioned modern van from your hotel in Sharm to Sharm Airport for flaying to Cairo. Meet & assist at Cairo International Airport then transfer to visit Giza pyramids (Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos), the Sphinx and the Valley temple. Refresh and have a Lunch at local restaurant then transfer to visit the Egyptian Museum, the largest of Egyptian antiquities museum all over the world, it houses around 250,000 antique pieces covering the whole history of ancient Egypt. Then to Khan El-Khalily for shopping, and at the evening transfer to the airport for flying to Luxor.
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Cairo & Luxor by flight from Sharm – Sharm El-Sheikh, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt
Jump to the full entry & travel map Valdez, Alaska, United States We took the cruise yesterday and I did indeed see a whale. A Humback, and I wish I could report that I have a picture to mark the moment but, unfortunately I was unable to push that darn button in time to catch that tail before it disappeared! It was a perfectly beautiful day for a boat ride…..overcast and cool. We dug out our warmest coats to be prepared for the cold. As it turned out, it was very cold out on the deck and I decided to enjoy the ride mostly from the inside, going out only for a few minutes at a time.
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COLUMBIA GLACIER CRUISE – Valdez, Alaska, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ribe, Jutland, Denmark After arriving in Hirshtals we didn’t really have any plans, all we knew was that we needed to be in Amsterdam on the 11th. So what to do for 2 days and nights without any reservations. Well, we were starving so we found a small hotel by the port that had a breakfast buffet and free internet, yeah connected again. Chatting with the front desk manager, who likes the US a lot, we got the suggestion to go to Silkeborg , since it had the highest point in Denmark,(not very high) also Annalisa wanted to go there to see the bog people
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Flatlanders Once Again – Ribe, Jutland, Denmark
When I first mentioned the name of the course I was going to follow in Siena to one of my best friends, she only giggled. La dolce vita, that’s nothing you can learn – in her opinion. But trust me: once you enter the magical world of this course, the Italian way of life will have an everlasting influence on everything you’ll do! La dolce vita definitely is not the same as the famous dolce far niente.
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HOW TO STUDY LA DOLCE VITA IN SIENA? Ten steps to experience Siena and the Sienese life
Jump to the full entry & travel map , Australia, Australia Vietnam travel – Welcome to Impress Travel Vietnam Impress Travel Vietnam is one of the top professional inbound tour operators and destination management companies in Vietnam. We suggested the name “Impress travel” due to our aim is bringing you an impression and relax vacation in Vietnam after hard working days.
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Argeles-sur-Mer, Languedoc-Roussillon, France After much deliberations, about where we should go (the world is our oyster), for how long, and when, we decided to head to France for a few days. Most of that decision, was based on our promise to the children that we would go to France for the holidays – of course, it was a ‘general’ remark, that turned into a …
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July – The South of France – Argeles-sur-Mer, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hurghada, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt Private tour to Cairo from Hurghada $160 Go Egypt Travel representative will pick you up by air-conditioned modern van from your hotel in Sharm to visit Giza pyramids (Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos), the Sphinx and the Valley temple. Refresh and have a Lunch at local restaurant then transfer to visit the Egyptian Museum, the largest of Egyptian antiquities museum all over the world, it houses around 250,000 antique pieces covering the whole history of ancient Egypt. Then drive back to Sharm.
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Private tour to Cairo from Hurghada – Hurghada, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt