Our photo album on my gallery page has been updated. Enjoy.
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 [...]
A few days ago we visited the forbidden city. The place sure justifies the city part. To call it a palace will be an insult to the shear size of the place. It is probably bigger then most average size villages. For you dutch readers, its probably slightly bigger then the center of Leiden. In [...]
These last few days have been very impressive. Only after landing in China did it sunk in that I am, actually going there. For the first time in my life I was in a place where I could not read anything. Well unless they had some small English translation bellow, but that’s beside the point. [...]
¶ 99 days
Not a lot of time, as we are still in the getting-it-all-ready madness. This last week has been all about preparations, and we are still hard pressed to finish everything. One way or another in a few hours Paula and me will be sitting in the plane, heading to the far east, and what we [...]