A day of food Last Thursday I ate out many times, lunch with a friend, a cake from a roadside stall, dinner from a Peking Duck restaurant and tea from a tea house. At lunchtime we ended up at one of the small local restaurants near the college. We chose our ingredients, vegetables, tofu or meat from […]
More on food and the hostel I returned and bought some more of the corn pancake biscuit and asked to take some photos. I also found a couple more food ones from Saturday. This is one of the two revolving hot plates. The mass of yellow is the mixture being levelled by the upside down […]
My Hostel and Food Last night I caught a late train to Beijing. The trip was fast comfortable and uneventful until I arrived. The taxi queue time blew out to half an hour but there were no brawls like last time. These are 2 of the carriages from the train. I am returning on the train […]
Another bus ride Yesterday was my day off and after a leisurely start to the day the presence of blue sky precipitated my movement out the door after I decided on a bus route. I chose to head west because I’ve never been there before and a supermarket was near the required bus stop and […]
Trip to Shandong I booked onto a 3 day Chinese tour to Shandong during the National Day holiday. One of my students offered to accompany me and it soon grew by three more. We met the bus and headed off at 8pm collecting a few more additional passengers at several non descript locations in other […]