Posted: 2009-08-11 01:00 AM
Thanks for your comment by my pictures and yes some of them take a very long time to get them the way they are now.
Kind regards
Bea
Posted: 2009-08-07 09:01 PM
for your nice congrats on the AoM award. Can you imagine that I have got a prize for MY pics??? Hope you are fine and have had a very nice day!
Cheers, pal - Petra
I am home. I'd rather be still travelling, but hey, c'est la vie. The last night in Beijing was ... just adrenaline overload, for a lack of a better description. It was nasty!
I am actually happy about weather in London. It is warm and sunny. Better than in China. It was warmer in China, but the smog and air pollution impacted visibility so terribly, than I had not seen anything like that apart from LA, I think.
Posted: 2009-08-01 12:49 PM
I am glad that you like my album from Costa Brava. I tried to insert an image from a few places. I like warm climate, as I recall the nice stay in Spain.
Best regards,
Basia
Posted: 2009-07-29 06:03 PM
Excuse me, I didn't want to stand on your nerves.
Besides: Did you ever read: Eric J. Leeds, The Mind of the Traveller, From Gilgamesch to Global Tourism? It's one of my favourites. He follows the traveller through history and in the end the reader is left desolate, when he realizes what he has lost.
Christl
Chinese currency symbol is CNY.
It is now approx. 11 CNY = 1 GBP, 10 CNY = 1 EUR
The duck would have been good, if it didn't contain so many bones! I should probably just stick to Peking duck, which I will definitely have in Peking.
Many thanks indeed for your entries to my guest book and your many encouraging words.
Yes, I had to be flexible in mind, body and soul on this trip to PRC in order not to flip out on a number of occasions. I love adrenaline though, and I do treat this as an adventure. Nevertheless, I am still, I think, struggling with the understanding of the 'culture' here, like the apparent lack of respect for others and their work, some of which materialises in the violation of copyrights en masse.
I was not planning to come back to PRC for a long while, but I might jump on a flight to Chengdu as soon as practical and affordable for a tour in Tibet!
Yesterday, I saw a few happy panda cubs playing around, which improved my mood a little. And I took a few pictures, some of which came out nice -another boost of happiness for me!
Today, I am off to the former capital of China, Nanjing, which I heard was really interesting.
