Rachel is a saviour of lunch! only kidding! this is the hotel pet.
Leech ! I don't like them ! especially when they are hanging from your leg.
Some one else's dinner!
Josie and Anna. Cheers guys for all the help. Well, we are starting out on our exit out of china!
Met a Dutch guy called Bart, yesterday (yes Bart! chuckle) and he had just secured a 6 million euro order of 1.5 m dia API tube to Holland for a dry dock. The land of quality and opportunity is here as he proves. They just need a lot of management, because the quality is OK he says. We love a pipe or 2! Could of bored each other for hours,he he. By the way, the south of the Island gets lots of Russian tourists and they were happily celebrating the defeat of the Dutch in the Euros. chuckle...but at least they were there!
The last 8 weeks has been a definite education. We have found the Chinese people as a land of the young, friendly to the point of over helpfulness, generous, open, innocent and naive but not to point of being push overs. Then again, the authorities act as the parents. We have had time to hang around a while housed at a Hainan university campus soaking up a little of the local culture. This is thanks to the fact our new friend Josie made good friends with Anna (a charming Chinese school teacher). We met Josie Ellis (Londoner-Kingston) the first day of our training and went on to travel the Island together. Thanks Josie for the help and talking girl talk with Rachel when my ears closed down for a sleep! chuckle. Anna has allowed Josie to stay in her flat for a spell whilst she is living with the in laws before or during her wedding. Chinese people get married in a registry office on a low key basis then have a fabulous wedding photo shoot which takes a full day before saving up for a big flash wedding months later. Thanks Anna for telling us how to order up a meal that actually goes together rather than our random selections.
The last 8 weeks has been a definite education. We have found the Chinese people as a land of the young, friendly to the point of over helpfulness, generous, open, innocent and naive but not to point of being push overs. Then again, the authorities act as the parents. We have had time to hang around a while housed at a Hainan university campus soaking up a little of the local culture. This is thanks to the fact our new friend Josie made good friends with Anna (a charming Chinese school teacher). We met Josie Ellis (Londoner-Kingston) the first day of our training and went on to travel the Island together. Thanks Josie for the help and talking girl talk with Rachel when my ears closed down for a sleep! chuckle. Anna has allowed Josie to stay in her flat for a spell whilst she is living with the in laws before or during her wedding. Chinese people get married in a registry office on a low key basis then have a fabulous wedding photo shoot which takes a full day before saving up for a big flash wedding months later. Thanks Anna for telling us how to order up a meal that actually goes together rather than our random selections.
Unfortunately China is having a terrible year! The flooding in the south has been extra bad and the earthquake that has created land slides to block up rivers to create new dams that break and cause flooding for all the poor homeless farmers. There is even typhoons hitting the coast to create more problems. Lets hope they have a great Olympics.
This afternoon we we will be flying to Nanning on the 20.50 flight (Nanning is in Southern China). We will be staying there for a few days and then going to the Vietnamese consulate there to get a visa which should take a few days. Then we are getting the 4 hour train to the Vietnam border and getting the train to Hanoi. We are not sure after that where we are going but will probably head down the coast of Vietnam. We're hoping to spend about 7 weeks in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand and then fly from Bangkok to Kathmundu and spend 7 weeks in Nepal.
This afternoon we we will be flying to Nanning on the 20.50 flight (Nanning is in Southern China). We will be staying there for a few days and then going to the Vietnamese consulate there to get a visa which should take a few days. Then we are getting the 4 hour train to the Vietnam border and getting the train to Hanoi. We are not sure after that where we are going but will probably head down the coast of Vietnam. We're hoping to spend about 7 weeks in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand and then fly from Bangkok to Kathmundu and spend 7 weeks in Nepal.
We would like to congratulate the lads from Guisborough who did the Hadrian's wall walk. We saw Joe Shutts photos and it looked a grueller! Count me in next years plan, how about that kayak trip Pee? or what ever else you can dream up, I will be up for it.
Stu, we will be planning to be home for most of October if you need a push on with the garage roof! I'm sure I can find time between visiting new little people, he he.
Here is the link to our Hainan photos-
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=daywaat.x82agdl&Uy=wqr9i3&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&UV=179735814423_89149946513&localeid=en_US
Here is the link to our Hainan photos-
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=daywaat.x82agdl&Uy=wqr9i3&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp%3Fmode%3Dfromshare&Ux=0&UV=179735814423_89149946513&localeid=en_US
P.S We had a nice meal in a very newly opened posh restaurant this lunch time (for a whole 8 pounds for 4 people) and on the way back to pick up our bags and via a trip to the bank so Josie could cash in her travellers cheques, we watched a naked man walk all the way up the street in a rain shower not even getting a second glance from the numerous people in the street! Did that really happen? Rachel and Josie had a chuckle!
1 comment:
Criag you are disgusting putting up a picture of a butchered dog about to be eaten. I hope my sister
reprimands you severely.
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