Category Archives: Travel Wash

Great Wall Again

I need to stop with the “Again” posts. 😉 So, in desperate attempt to relieve my late childhood, I tried to do the 10km hike on the wall again that I did 5 years ago. Unfortunately I didn’t remember precisely … Continue reading

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Beijing Again

Amy found the coolest hostel so far in Beijing: Qian Men Hostel. Beats even the one I had 5 years ago. That one was an old double courtyard building (I assumed teared down by now). This one is a double … Continue reading

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No plan survives …

There are those days were everything goes wrong … First, bad planning: We (Amy, James and me) needed to be at the bus station at 9:00 to get the bus to the factory we try to visit. We wanted to … Continue reading

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Expo – Chinese Style II

As said before, the lines at the Expo were crazy. Every Chinese and their grandmothers (and great grandmothers). We had the choice between waiting for hours or pick less popular pavilions. So we managed to only get into buildings of … Continue reading

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Expo – Chinese Style I

Crowded! My main impression here at the Expo (for Americans: World Fair). We arrive at opening time (9:00) on a weekday and there was still nothing we could do to avoid the crowds. To get into the quite impressive Chinese … Continue reading

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Back To Asia

It has been a while since I’ve been in Shanghai. Not since living there in 2005. And I haven’t been in Asia at all since Japan 2007 (which I somehow never got around blogging about). Shanghai suppose to change a … Continue reading

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Trips still on my list

New York to New Orleans Road Trip Trans-Siberia Express (from Moscow via Mongolia to Beijing) Seattle and Vancouver LA and back to California Egypt and Israel The Strange Small Caribbean Islands Brasil Iceland The New East EU Paris for a … Continue reading

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Travel Map, again

It’s about time I update it … visited 28 countries (12%) create your own visited countries map

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India Final

Ok, some final, end-of-story, out-of-there kind of thing about India. Nature Beautiful, diverse, a lot to see … basically like other tourist places on earth, too. Face it, people don’t spend most of the money they make in a year … Continue reading

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Proven-subjective statistics

Most probable lies 3. I have a girlfriend in Norway/Schweden/Finland/Germany/Italy/etc. 2. I’ve been to your country 3 times. Berlin, beautiful city … 1. My taxi meter is broken. Highest amount of drug dealers per square meter 3. Delhi (in front … Continue reading

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