How many smiles do you see on a typical Shanghai day.
Does the 24 hours shop assistant smile at you when you buy your late night milk. Does your apartment complex guard curl his lips when you greet him in the morning.
(One of the 3 guards in our building actually always smiles and […]

I was rather surprised to read recently, to be more specific, a couple of days ago, that a Dutch journalist wrote on her blog for the NRC Handelsblad (a Dutch quality newspaper) that Wikipedia was available again in China. I was even more surprised that she quoted an article from the BBC that was […]

The number of Chinese going abroad pales compared to the numbers of tourists visiting China but that will increase in the future as more and more Chinese will have the money and the interest to have a look beyond the border.
Some China Travel statistics

Visitors to China in 2005 - 120.3 million
Chinese citizens who traveled […]

In Shanghai there are several landmarks and one of them is the ultra luxurious Plaza 66. It’s a high end shopping mall with an office tower attached. It’s great place, you can walk there in Summer to enjoy the airco and in Winter to get some warmth. Nobody seems to buy anything as all […]

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Back to Shanghai with Spring Airlines
Our airline was Spring Airlines, one of the very few official budget airlines in China. I already mentioned in a previous post that Hainan Airport sucks at the moment due to ongoing construction. Flying with Spring Airlines doesn’t make it any better. It’s the ultimum of cattle class. Leg […]

When we booked to go to Hainan I had visions of big juicy prawns. They stayed visions. Wind is something that seems to make the prawns wary to get caught in the fisher men’s nets unfortunately and windy it was.
The Seafood Fresh Market

There’s a great Seafood Fresh Market (Chun Yuan Seafood Square) in Sanya […]