Land of the Dong

I walked down the hill and said goodbye to the rice terraces of Ping An.  My first ride was to Longsheng, connecting to Sanjiang and then a further connection to my final destination. Three bus rides later I was at the Cheng Yang Wind and Rain Bridge, outside the town of Sanjiang.  It is pretty […]

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Rice terraces and flight simulators

Exploring This morning I woke to the sound of dripping on my backpack.  Then it became a torrent.  I think the family owning the hotel sleep in the loft and baby did a wee wee, or hopefully a glass of water fell over.  Fortunately I managed to leap out of bed to move my pack […]

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Dutch season in the land of the Zhuang

I woke early and left Guilin for my next destination by bus.  Two buses in fact.  I lucked out with the first one for Longshen, catching it a couple of minutes before it departed from Guilin station.  Less than two hours, I  changed at Longshen for a smaller bus to Ping An rice terraces.  It […]

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First day but already blase

I woke to a cool grey day.  Maybe even brown.  Very often the sky in China is brown due to pollution, desert dust or whatever other reason. I only have today at Guilin and wanted to take in the various sights.  First up, I climbed up to Solitary Beauty Peak.  The Peak is one of […]

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Strange introduction

Kim and I spent the morning in Hong Kong looking for his model car shops.  Nothing opens till about 1100 so it was fruitless.  After a nice buffet lunch at his hotel, I left some of my luggage at the hotel reception and made my way to the airport for my 1 hour plus flight […]

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Eating with friends

Our flight arrived into Hong Kong slightly after 0600 and it was about 0800 by the time we go to the Novotel in Wanchai.  We showered and slept till 1100 when I rang Rosalind, a friend from school for our catch-up arrangements. Rosalind and another school friend, Mary turned up and we walked a few […]

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Night flight

Tonight I depart for Hong Kong to begin two new adventures.  The first in China and the second in Ethiopia.  The time in between would be spent with family in Kuching, Malaysian Borneo and then Sana’a, Yemen. Kim was working on the flight tonight to Hong Kong.  I was well-looked after in my flat-bed.

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Labour Weekend 2007 Dinner

I don't cook very often … but on Labour Weekend I cooked three nights in a row. That's like three months worth of cooking in one hit! Posted by Alex Chan on Friday, November 9, 2007

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Back to work

I landed back in Auckland at 0515 on Saturday 1 September after short but wonderful trip around France.  I was grateful to have been able to take time off my contract job for this trip.

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Transit

My flight from London landed in Los Angeles at 1930.  I have a two hour transit here for the continuing aircraft to Auckland but the USA has no concept of transit without actually entering the country, as seen in most Asian airports.  And despite being on standby, I managed to get on the continuing journey […]

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