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Posted by Warm Worm on October 21, 2007, 2:49 pm
jjyytreeyee@gmail.com wrote:
> sorry about your bad travel experiences, Warm Worm.
> you've the right to have your opinion and comment on any city as you
> want on bbs but it does NOT reflect the real world.
My travel experiences weren't precisely bad.
My apartment, save for the wacky plumbing along a couple of walls, the
dubious hot-water-heater mount (over my head in the stand-up shower);
the sewer-like smelliness of the washroom and odd-looking flies one one
wall near the drain, was fairly decent and I especially enjoyed the
Russian TV channel.
My Russian colleagues were pretty cool too... I think I'll visit Russia
one day. :)
I also admittedly got a kick (for at least the first few days) out of
being about the only rollerblader, oval-faced and blue eyed, in Linyi,
and because if it, might now have a better idea of how famous people
feel. "Helloooo... Hellooooo"... "Neehaaaahww... Neehaaaahww" (waves)
I also appreciated the overpriced tea and tea-ceremony and the
spontaneous dinner-invitation afterward at a nice teahouse, along with
the generally fine hospitality of the people.
I had a hard time with the currency though, and had a feeling that many
thought I was rich. Relatively-speaking, perhaps, but not when I went
back home without any savings.
I uploaded a quick clip for you of my 6-hour trip back to Shanghai on
this cool "bed-bus"-- 3 rows full of bunk-beds:
http://www.sfu.ca/~rmacinty/China/Chinabus.avi
Never took a bed-bus like that in North America, and certainly would
have appreciated it.
> Shanghai is the my favorite city, charming and energetic. ofcoz with a
> lot of social problems as those of the States and Canada.
You might find that, with time, you prefer cities or towns more along a
"human scale".
> I traveled a lot and slept in the airport a lot because of flight
> delay or ground controls. but I'm not so frustrated as you're. I think
> it's a good chance to explore a city for free! that's how I visited SF
> and Baltimore.
By sleeping in airports?
See how well you sleep with a $1648 (Canadian) laptop and $1000 digital
camera in your luggage.
> but still, good luck for your journeys and still welcome back to
> China.
> -Janet
Give me a shout if you ever want to do Russia and want a companion. Da?
-Rich
>> jjyytree...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> http://www.artofcity.com
>>> on this website is myfreehandtravel sketches, please comment! thank
>>> you.
>>> Janet
>> From a link from your site:
>>
>> "Shanghai is both charming and hollow. Too many kisses are wasted in
>> this city. I have a drawer full of stories about nights in Shanghai.
>> Which is the most splendid? None. I think I know where I got lost."
>>
>> I spent a full night and half a day in Shanghai's airport, and then a
>> sleepless 12 hours on my flight back to Canada.
>> Goodbye China.
>> May the rest of the world not become so bleak, smelly, dirty, crowded or
>> bland as your cities I passed in 2006.
>> May you change for the
better.http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/99/0927/shanghai.html
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