Archive for November, 2012
Propaganda and Street Food in Shanghai
Posted: November 9th, 2012 by Courtney
We were worried that visiting Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai would be too much big city for us, but we were pleasantly surprised how much we liked Shanghai. We haven’t been to too many museums on this trip, preferring to get out an about in each place, but in Shanghai we visited two excellent ones, the Propaganda Poster Museum and the […]
Qingdao for some Tsingtao
Posted: November 7th, 2012 by Courtney
We were excited to take one of China’s high speed trains and thought a trip to the coastal city of Qingdao would make a good stop for a few days. We needed a bit of sea air after the pollution in Beijing. Â And what better for that then the beer capital of China and a […]
The People’s Republic of China
Posted: November 4th, 2012 by Courtney
With our visas in our hands on Monday afternoon, we jumped on a plane to Beijing Tuesday morning. We arrived to a bit of a culture shock. We were feeling pretty good in Hong Kong, with familiar Cantonese food and English spoken everywhere. Well, not in Beijing. We were overwhelmed by the scale of city. […]