Shanghai - Duesseldorf (Day 39) |
Nothing much to report actually. The taxi driver kind of ripped us off, the vegetarian food provided by Lufthansa was so-so, the connecting flight from Frankfurt to Dusseldorf seemed completely unn...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:53:00 GMT |
Shanghai (Day 36, Day 37 & Day 38) |
After spending half a week in China's biggest and probably most important metropolis I have to say I'm not a big fan. Sure, the urban atmosphere is exciting and some of the architecture is quite stunn...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:39:00 GMT |
Beijing - Shanghai (Day 34 & Day 35) |
If your train leaves at 20.14h and you've completed your check-out at about 13.00h - that's more than seven (!) hours before the departure, I just want to point that out again - one should think it's ...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:37:00 GMT |
Beijing (Day 31, Day 32 & Day 33) |
Beijing, Beijing. If I could afford to be unemployed until the end of the year, if I didn't have to move to Berlin in two weeks, and if it weren't for a special lady waiting for me back home, I could ...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:49:00 GMT |
Beijing (Day 30) |
Lots of relaxing and chilling out on Saturday. We needed to recover from the hike and save our energy for the big night.Julian, a friend of Karsten's from Luxembourg who's been living in Beijing for m...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:43:00 GMT |
Beijing (Day 28 & Day 29) |
Day 3 in Beijing saw us do some classic sightseeing. The Forbidden City, Jingshan Park, and Tian'anmen Square. I could easily fill a couple of pages with descriptions and stuff, but you might as well ...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:45:00 GMT |
Beijing (Day 27) |
When I stepped outside to get breakfast at the cosy cafe next door at about 10.00h, I couldn't believe my eyes: the sun was high up in the blue sky, all the smog had cleared. Appartently, the Communis...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:30:00 GMT |
Beijing (Day 26) |
Sleeping in and chilling out was priority no. 1 on our first day in Beijing. After 30 hours of travelling nonstop we just needed to take it slow.Early in the afternoon we had lunch at a nice little ve...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:07:00 GMT |
Ulan Bator - Beijing (Day 24 & Day 25) |
There was an upside to getting a ticket to Erlian instead of one to Beijing: the train leaves at eight o'clock in the evening which means we had an extra day for activities in Mongolia.Desperate to ge...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:41:00 GMT |
Ulan Bator (Day 23) |
I wanted to sleep in badly, but apart from the fact that my stomach wouldn't let me (no decent meal in 36 hours), we needed to get back to the ticket centre a.s.a.p. to inquire about possible connecti...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:13:00 GMT |
