Author: Sublime

Note to reader: Francesca started this post, but I’ll keep working on it since she’s asleep! “Our train ride from Chongqing to Chengdu wasn’t bad, but for some reason it left me quite exhausted. I fell asleep on the train while Henk was working on his blog posts (trying to ignore everyone staring at us…

That morning, the 5th of August Francesca and I slept in. There was no real reason to wake up other than to talk to Jacqueline and find out a little more about her, her house and her city. Of course we were both interested in this! Around 9:00 AM our clothes were on our bodies…

Yes, on the 1st of August Francesca and I had a few hours to kill before our flight to Xi’an. We were a little hungry and strolled around the airport in search of food. Not really finding anything we headed for our gate, where we spotted a little mini-market. At the same time a gate…

The problem with going to the Great Wall of China is not getting to the Great Wall of China. The problem with going to the Great Wall of China is all the other places you also have to visit when you just want to see the Great Wall of China. Sadly, the prices for public…

The morning of the 20th of July Francesca and I headed for the Jinan train station. Since I’d had some watermelon I wasn’t terribly hungry, but Francesca needed breakfast. We didn’t have a terrible amount of time before our train left, so I ran out to grab her a meal from McDonald’s. The chips took…

On the 19th Francesca and I had planned to visit the hometown of one of the most famous Chinese people of all time. Unfortunately it wouldn’t be that easy to get to his place. We took a taxi to the bus station that morning and bought tickets to go to the town of Qufu. Since…

Around 1:00 AM our train departed for Jinan. Francesca and I had gotten quite tired after the long day, so sleep was not a problem, even with snoring Chinese people all around. We arrived that morning around 8:45 AM and made our way straight to the Home Inn, a pretty decent hotel Francesca had pre-booked.…

The morning of the 15th we left Shawn behind us and headed for Shanghai Train Station, in the hope of finding tickets to Suzhou and Nanjing. We’d read online that we could get trains from this station easily. When we arrived there a seething mass of people awaited us. Finding the ticket office wasn’t easy,…

That following morning, the 1st of July, we were picked up (too late) by a taxi driver that spoke no English. As we’d already left a little late, and the drive was taking much longer than expected, I was getting worried. Luckily, the airport came in sight after 50 minutes of back road driving. Francesca…

The 29th of June certainly got off to a slow start. Francesca and I mulled over our decision to stay in Yangshuo for another day, since the Impressions show had been canceled the previous night due to high water levels in the Li River. We ended up staying and found out the show was definitely…