London Calling: Our (Shopping) Blitz does little damage. City left mostly intact.
We traveled from Amsterdam to London via train with a change of trains in Brussels, Belgium. Of all our travels on this trip around the world, we have not passed […]
Mongolia is GREAT!! Who’da thunk it? – Part 1
Mongolia was a very pleasant surprise for us. When we were planning our trip we had the choice to take the train from Beijing back to Vladivostok and then take […]
Out of China – Back to Beijing & the Trans-Mongolian
To conclude our trip to China, we took a bullet train from Shanghai back to Beijing. The trip by bullet train is about 5 hours and it was very comfortable. […]
Shanghai – A city on the hustle.
If Beijing is China’s Washington D.C., then Shanghai is China’s New York City. People in China are ENTREPRENUREAL and I like and admire that quality. Commerce is thriving everywhere we […]
Hangzhou and a Chinese Venice – Tongli
A Guest Blog by Holly Melton Written Wednesday, October 31, 2013 Dear Readers: I confess to spending too much time shopping and too little time blogging. I’ll do better (well, […]
Beijing – Part 3: Hutong, Confucian & Tibetan Buddhist Temples
On our third day in Beijing we started our day with a tour of some of the Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing, immediately to the North of the Forbidden City. Our […]
Beijing – Part 2: The Great Wall of China
On our second day in Beijing we drove about two hours out of the city to the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall. This section of the wall is the […]
Beijing – Center of the Chinese Universe – Part 1
On Monday, October 7th our Trans-Pacific cruise ended in Tianjin, China – a port city 3-hours east of Beijing. Tianjin is a large city and the ship’s Port Lecturer suggested […]
Ports of China – Part 2: Dalian
They used to say that the state bird of California was the crane, because there was so much building going on, there were building cranes everywhere you looked. The amount […]
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