April 2010
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Apr 29th
So, I lied.
Wow. I promised to post some updates when I got to Hong Kong and then I totally didn’t. I am such a liar! Well, the truth is even more sinister. I bought an iPad. Yes, I succumbed. I was even this close to buying a macbook pro as well, but common sense won through (well, this one time). Truth be told, the iPad is a pretty awesome piece of engineering, and both Michelle and I have used it...
Apr 29th
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Beijing kicked our ass
We’ve tried to pack so much into our time in Beijing that we have both felt shattered at the end of each day. It seems that our B&B is in the middle of a transport deadzone, and we ended up walking to a lot of places. Those places have been, for the most part, pretty darned excellent. Today we capped it all off by doing an 8km hike along the Great Wall from Jinshanling to Simatai. It was...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Where are we now?
We are just getting ready to leave Zhongdian (Shangrila) so you might be wondering where all the photos have gone? Well, it hasn’t been from lack of trying! The wireless internet here is as reliable as…. well, a very unreliable thing. I’ll try and put a quick update here after breakfast, but I make no proimises!
Apr 16th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 12th
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Michelle says hi...
This is Michelle hi-jacking Phil’s blog for a while. We are still in Dali for one last day. Dali (nothing to do with Salvador Dali, its just a phonetic translation of the chinese name) is an awesome place consisting of an ancient town and a new town. The ancient town is where were at. It’s sandwiched between a lake named Erhai lake (due to its shape looking like an ear) and Cangshan...
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Internet in China
Those of you paying attention may have noticed that I was originally going to post travel stuff on my old blog, but then switched to doing it all here. There is a method to the madness, however, and the reason behind the switch is a little thing called the Great Firewall of China. A lot of sites and services are blocked here, including blogger/blogspot as well as facebook, twitter and youtube. In...
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
March 2010
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Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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