Diving has not been to me all that I had expected it to be. I was actually waiting for my mind to be blown away, all my old hobbies forgotten and a new obsession to be introduced. Instead what I found was a charming, relaxing experience that offers very little in the adrenaline department, but [...]
Reuters has a film on internet with the monkey festival, check it out It really is like that
It is not often that I feel as though my words are not enough, yet this is exactly how I feel when I try to tell someone about Hong Kong. To describe Hong Kong in words would be like trying to explain to a blind man why the color red is much more vivid then gray. It is simply [...]
Hong Kong, finally, after years of thinking of you, I’m here, to walk your fantastic streets, amongst your people, to see you with my own eyes. I felt like a small boy, off to his first amusement park. It is weird for me to feel this way as I rarely get so excited about cities. Hong [...]
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Arriving in Xi’an, we were hoping the what we thought of the Chinese was really just the Chinese of Beijing, and that outside it we will find the people we were expecting. A nation that is spiritual, respectful of its elder and of one another. Unfortunately we didn’t find them in Xi’an. Instead we found [...]
The reason we actually came to Xi’an was to view the terra cota army. Yesterday we finally did it. The sight of it has left us amazed. The terra cota army was made for the burial of emperor Qin. Qin was the first to rule over the whole of china. There were 5 kingdoms in [...]
Today Paula and me are celebrating 5 years together. emails with best wishes and blessings are expected!
This morning (woke up at 6 am god damn it) we left Beijing and took a plane to Xi’an. Xi’an is the old capital of China, and the resting place of the famous terracotta army. Our first impression is very positive. The city has a nice Muslim Quarter and like any good Muslim quarter its [...]
So far we have only been to Beijing. My impression of the Chinese might be wrong then, but so far it is really a people of duality. They are nice people but about as polite as a pack of starving hyenas on the queue to the free antelope steakhouse. Example: We got into the metro [...]