<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703</id><updated>2012-01-31T20:04:29.683+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rocking China</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-6348855135417018859</id><published>2007-09-23T21:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T23:06:57.400+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haikou (海口) and Surfing Hainan (海南)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikou"&gt;Haikou&lt;/a&gt; is the province capital of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan"&gt;Hainan Island&lt;/a&gt; which is the biggest Chinese Island (overlooking Taiwan of course). I got there on the first eve of Chinese New Year also known as Spring Festival (春节). This is the most important event for Chinese people and they are celebrating it for about two weeks. Just imagine we western people would celebrate our New Year for two weeks and you get an idea what is going on during these days. Actually I wanted to head as soon as possible further south for surfing, but it turned out that the local surfers (actually all of them western people) would go there later during week. Since the hostel and the people living at the hostel have been really nice I stayed 3 days in Haikou with a lot fun and a lot of relaxing. Later during week I took the bus to Xinglong which is a small town at the east side of Hainan. I spend the first day at the beach and got sunburned. In the afternoon Markus and Danio came there as well and stayed one night before going to Sanya. On the next two days me, a Venezuelan, a US-American and a French guy went up and down the coastline in a small QQ car to find some surf able waves. The waves we found have not been too good, but better then nothing and I could get some rides. After these two days I went back to Haikou and took a ferry back to the mainland in order to catch a bus to Shenzhen and to enter Hong Kong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;On the way from the airport to the hostel I met an American Japanese couple and  a Hong Kong - Indian couple. Before having th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;e Spring Festival dinner together we first had to get "rid" of the drunken Canadian occupying the entrance area to the room of one of the couples&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 443px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0002.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0001_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 356px; height: 266px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0001_2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As I said: Imagine we would celebrate our New Year for two weeks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Posing kids in Haikou&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0002_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 255px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0002_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0007_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0007_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0008_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 263px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0008_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; At the hostel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- This is a moustache &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(two month later I met this guy again by coincidence in Shanghai)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0005.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Xinglong - My first day on the beach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 261px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0011.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0013.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 265px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0009.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/BeachAnimationGIF.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/BeachAnimationGIF.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0014.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/DAN_0004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 265px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/DAN_0004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0017.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Markus and Danio are taking a hot ride!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/DAN_0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 345px; height: 258px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/DAN_0001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Exploring the "city"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Markus together with a Chinese family wearing their beach uniform&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0002.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Exploding Bin Laden Noggin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 281px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0003.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hopefully never walking this pavemet drunk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 269px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;This is somehow the Hainan national soft drug - You chew it and then you get a very light befuddlement...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;... and it's sold everywhere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0007.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I am not sure but I think it is jackfruit - and these monsters are crowing on trees!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 449px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/MAR_0005.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0018.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 269px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0020.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0021.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;On tour with the QQ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0024.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 268px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0022.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0027.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0027.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 265px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0029.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0030.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 269px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0031.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 255px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0032.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 264px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0023.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0025.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sure, a cow is an animal one usually finds on the beach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 357px; height: 267px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0033.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0036.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 377px; height: 281px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0038.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;This old man is the owner of the apartment complex I lived in - He looked after me like a father&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/7-HaikouXinglong/IMG_0039.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here are some more Hainan &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=30"&gt;pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-6348855135417018859?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6348855135417018859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=6348855135417018859' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/6348855135417018859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/6348855135417018859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2007/09/haikou-and-surfing-hainan.html' title='Haikou (海口) and Surfing Hainan (海南)'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-3962084278685932786</id><published>2007-05-03T13:57:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-23T02:25:32.524+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;At &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong"&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, I met Danio and Markus again who arrived there one day earlier. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; is an amazing city! It is not comparable to any Chinese city and one gets the impression it is still British and not Chinese at all. We did a lot of sight seeing and on the third day &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I went alone to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Island&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; peak since Danio and Markus have done this on their first day. Up there is one of two Burger Kings of Hong Kong (there is no Burger King in China so far) and in this Burger King I met Chompu and her friend Fon – both form Thailand. While I went to the restroom Chompu wrote a slip of paper and put it on my table! I hang out that evening together with them (Markus also joined us later) and the next morning until they had to leave to the airport to catch their flight. Chompu is such a nice and charming woman and I hope to visit her in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Bangkok&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; before returning to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. I also had to go back to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; that evening – so I took the Jet Boat in order to go to Shenzhen in the afternoon. An amazing travel ended at this night back in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Streetlife&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 291px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0008.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 361px; height: 271px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0013.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Fish market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 262px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0016.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0018.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 265px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0017.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 257px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0023.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 257px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Trip to Tai O village on Lantau Island&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0032.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0032.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0036.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 279px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0036.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0048.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 260px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0039.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 461px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0047.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0037.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0043.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 329px; height: 246px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0043.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 364px; height: 272px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0015.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0016.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 365px; height: 487px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0052.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0058.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0058.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Helpful advices at Hong Kong subway stations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0063.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 355px; height: 266px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0063.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hong Kong Island 7eleven drinking tour together with Markus and our Hong Kong "guide" Sincere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0068.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 286px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0068.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0070.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0072.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 354px; height: 264px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0072.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/MAR_0020.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0075.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 261px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0075.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0080.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0076.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 259px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0076.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hong Kong Island peak - meeting Chompu and Fon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0092.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0089.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 268px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0089.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0094.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 355px; height: 266px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0094.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0098.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0098.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0099.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 261px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0099.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 454px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0103.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0106.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0106.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0109.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 362px; height: 270px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Reise%20Winter/8-Hongkong/IMG_0109.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more Hong Kong &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=31"&gt;pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-3962084278685932786?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/3962084278685932786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=3962084278685932786' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/3962084278685932786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/3962084278685932786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2007/05/hong-kong.html' title='Hong Kong'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-6064043024697022645</id><published>2007-03-04T17:55:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-02T17:00:49.801+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Too much happened - Summary October to Janurary</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;I am back! I am back from a really amazing trip! But since I haven’t had the time to report about the happenings from October to January so far I will do this first before writting about the big journey!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Dalian (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:SimSun;"&gt;大连&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Following an invitation of the FEV in Aachen, the company of a Professor of RWTH Aachen and although the company I worked for as a student assistant back in Germany, the German students of automobile engineering went to the City of &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalian"&gt;Dalian&lt;/a&gt; from 16&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; to 17&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of December. After arriving at the snowy city we visited the FEV facility, a locomotive company and a shipyard. Later we went to one of the biggest squares of the world and have had a nice buffet before testing the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Dalian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; nightlife. On the next day we just walked round a little before flying back to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. Unfortunately the focus of this trip was visiting facilities and not the city so that we didn’t see too much of Dali. Anyway, two great and interesting days!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/71/Dalian_Lage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/71/Dalian_Lage.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Dalian/IMG_0003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Dalian/IMG_0003.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Dalian/IMG_0005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Dalian/IMG_0005.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Dalian/IMG_0010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/Dalian/IMG_0010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=21"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;  &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;The first guests came to visit me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of November and beginning of December Sonja and Eran from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Jersey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, came to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; to visit me. They stayed for ten days and together we explored a lot of the famous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; sights. We went to the night market, where snakes, bugs, scorpions, etc are sold – for eating of course, made it to the “Summer Palace” with the first ice on the lake, went to a part of the “Great Wall” we have been nearly the only people on that day, visited the “Temple of Heaven” and the “Forbidden City” and so on and so on. Unfortunately I was quite busy with University at that time so that they also “had” to do a lot of shopping.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nightmarket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0011.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0013.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_1783.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Nightmarket%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_1783.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=16"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Once more the Summer Palace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0022.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0016.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Sommerpalast%20Sonja%20und%20Eren/IMG_0023.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=17"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Great Wall Simatai &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0005.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0070.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0070.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0028.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0042.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0042.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0037.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0037.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0045.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0045.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0046.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0046.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0062.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0050.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0054.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0054.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Gro%DFe%20Mauer%20Simatai/IMG_0066.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=22"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Temple of Heaven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Temple%20of%20heaven/IMG_0004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Temple%20of%20heaven/IMG_0004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Temple%20of%20heaven/IMG_0009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Temple%20of%20heaven/IMG_0009.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Temple%20of%20heaven/IMG_0006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Temple%20of%20heaven/IMG_0006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=19"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Forbidden City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0001_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0001_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0008_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0008_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0009_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0009_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0021.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0006_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Forbidden%20City/IMG_0006_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=20"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And some more &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=18"&gt;pictures&lt;/a&gt; of Sonja's and Eran's visit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Girls, Girrls, Grrrls - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt; Automobile Exhibition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;As is right and proper for students of automotive engineering we went altogether to the Beijing Automobile Exhibition in the middle of November. Although we got tickets for the manufactures day – which was the first day of the exhibition and on a Sunday – it seemed that these tickets have not been special and everybody could get such a ticket. So it was really crowded. The main difference between this exhibition and the ones in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; is: Here in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; one could think it is not about the cars and instead it is much more about the girls standing next to the cars! So we saw a lot of nice girls ....ehh, cars.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0008.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0038.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0038.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0039.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0039.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0025.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Automotiv%20Exhibition/IMG_0014.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=12"&gt;girls&lt;/a&gt; ... eh, &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=12"&gt;cars&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; Alaaf!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;On 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of November we Germans started together with some other people of our dormitory celebrating the beginning of the 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; season – carnival – how it has to be: in the early morning hours! At &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:time minute="11" hour="11"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;11:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:time&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; nearly all of us came together in fancy dresses in the common room of our floor. We tried to animate as much people as possible to celebrate with us and at about &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:time minute="30" hour="12"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;12:30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:time&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; we have been kicked out by the dormitory staff and they closed the common room. So we had to look for other places to keep the party rocking and after moving with our “Karawane” singing into the dining hall we made it on the subway to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:street&gt;&lt;st1:address&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Tianmen Square&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:address&gt;&lt;/st1:street&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. In the subway station we have been admonished and they told us to stop doing “Polonäse”. On Tianmen we stayed more quite but we have been the attraction of the day anyways and masses of people surrounded us and took pictures of us. Afterwards we went to a German restaurant and went on celebrating this special day until late in the night.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; Alaaf!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3509/3791/1600/DSCN1324.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3509/3791/1600/DSCN1324.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3509/3791/1600/CIMG3776.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3509/3791/1600/CIMG3776.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3509/3791/1600/DSCN1335.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3509/3791/1600/DSCN1335.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more pictures of &lt;a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/Hugo.Trappmann/"&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; (see 11.11. in Beijing) and &lt;a href="http://shinski-in-china.blogspot.com/2006/11/karneval-in-beijing.html"&gt;Thomas J.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Climbing at Beida (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:SimSun;"&gt;北大&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After living nearly two month in Beijing eventually I made it to the Beijing University (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:SimSun;"&gt;北京大学&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; – or in short &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:SimSun;"&gt;北大&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;) to check its climbing wall. Beida is the other big University in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; besides &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Tsinghua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. After the climbing session I explored the campus area. Since this University is much older then Tsinghua it has also more nice old buildings.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/kletterwand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/kletterwand.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_0992.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_0992.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_1015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_1015.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_1004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_1004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_1014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Beida/IMG_1014.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-GB"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=13"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;“Fragrant Hill” and “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Temple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; of Azure Clouds”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;At the end of October on a beautifu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;l late summer day Danio, Luis (a Mexican señor) and I went to the outskirts of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; to visit th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;e “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Fragrant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Hill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;”. Actually we headed to this place for its famous and really beautiful Indian summer. Unfortunately it was still too early and the most leafs still green and since the place was really crowded with Chinese people we decided to visit the “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Temple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Azure Clouds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;” which is locate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;d inside the park. Up to now it is one of the most beautiful temples I have seen in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; – and I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;saw already a lot of Chinese temples.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/IMG_0968.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/IMG_0968.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/Tempelgarten.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/Tempelgarten.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/IMG_0916.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/IMG_0916.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/IMG_0946.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Fragrant%20Hill%20and%20Temple%20of%20azur%20Clouds/IMG_0946.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(here some more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=11"&gt;colored pictures&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-6064043024697022645?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/6064043024697022645/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=6064043024697022645' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/6064043024697022645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/6064043024697022645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2007/03/too-much-happened-summary-october-to.html' title='Too much happened - Summary October to Janurary'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-1992375670161392981</id><published>2007-03-04T17:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-03-04T17:54:54.298+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Some changes have to be made</title><content type='html'>So liebe Leute, da ich mittlerweile eine ganze Menge neue Menschen kennen lernen durfte, die der deutschen Sprache nicht mächtig sind, werde ich von nun an die Posts so gut ich kann in Englisch verfassen. Ich denke damit könnt ihr leben!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-1992375670161392981?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/1992375670161392981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=1992375670161392981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/1992375670161392981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/1992375670161392981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2007/03/some-changes-have-to-be-made.html' title='Some changes have to be made'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-8177292610271198043</id><published>2006-12-11T18:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-12-11T19:04:20.332+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Die Große Enttäuschung</title><content type='html'>Am 21. Oktober sollte es endlich zur Großen Mauer gehen. Die Tour ist vom Forgein Office organisiert worden und wurde leider zur großen Enttäuschung! Man brachte uns mit 3 Bussen zu dem mit Abstand touristischsten Teil der Mauer nach Badaling. Dort hatten wir dann 2 Stunden, um zwischen den Menschenmassen über die "überrenovierte" Mauer zu laufen. Es war zwar beeindruckend, wie sich dieses Bauwerk über die Berge schlängelte, allerdings konnte man rein gar nichts mehr von der ursprünglichen Bausubstanz sehen und hätte genau so gut vermuten können, sich auf einer x-beliebigen Mauer irgendwo in den Hügeln Beijings zu befinden. Im Anschluss wurden wir dann noch zu einem rasthofähnlichen Touristen-Restaurant kutschiert, wo es das bis dato schlechteste chinesische Mittagsessen gab. Einziger Wehmutstropfen: Die ganze Tour inklusive Eintritt zur Mauer und Mittagessen hat uns nur 30 Kuai (ca. 3 Euro) gekostet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Mauer/IMG_0849.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Mauer/IMG_0849.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Mauer/IMG_0879.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Mauer/IMG_0879.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Mauer/IMG_0857.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Mauer/IMG_0857.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(hier gibt es noch ein paar &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/beijing/Mauer/IMG_0879.jpg"&gt;Bilder&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-8177292610271198043?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/8177292610271198043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=8177292610271198043' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/8177292610271198043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/8177292610271198043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2006/12/die-groe-enttuschung.html' title='Die Große Enttäuschung'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-116083272345157797</id><published>2006-10-14T20:33:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T01:22:50.216+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Die Schöne, die Hure und Venedig</title><content type='html'>Am Sonntag, dem 1. Oktober, war es so weit! Endlich raus aus Beijing. Wir, eine lustige Truppe aus einer Dänin, einer Aachenerin und vier Aachenern machten uns auf den Weg zum Flughafen, um nach &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai" target=" blank"&gt;Shanghai&lt;/a&gt; zu fliegen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/Google%20Earth.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/400/Google%20Earth.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Shanghai - Die Hure des Orients&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/shanghai/Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/shanghai/Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_080.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In Shanghai kamen wir in einer günstigen und sehr sauberen Jugendherbge unter. Von dort begannen wir unsere Erkundungstouren in die Megacity (entweder per Taxi über zum Teil 3 stöckige Highways oder mit der Metro). Nan Jing Road, the Bund, Old Street und Yuan Garden, Pudong, eine Transrapidfahrt ... alles wurde abgeklappert. Natürlich sind wir auch nachts aktiv gewesen. An unserem zweiten Abend waren wir in einem Shanghaier edel House Club (vorher habe ich im nahe gelegenen Style McDonalds das beschissenste Klo ever gesehen … im Vergleich dazu waren die Sch****häuser aus „From Dusk till Dawn“ und „Trainspotting“ absoluter Sch****dreck) und am Abend vor unserer Abfahrt nach Suzhou haben wir eine nette Salsa Bar besucht.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(hier gibt es viele viele bunte &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=2" target=" blank"&gt;Fotos&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Nun ist es so, dass Shanghai gar nicht allzu viele Sehenswürdigkeiten hat! Genau genommen, hat man nach 2 Tagen zumindest die Hauptattraktionen abgegrast. Um das Nachtleben richtig ausgiebig zu testen, waren die 2 Tage natürlich nicht ausreichend. Da könnte man durchaus Monate mit vergeuden. Da wir allerdings nur 5 Tage zur Verfügung hatten, beschlossen wir, am 3. Tag weiter nach Suzhou zu reisen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Suzhou - Das Venedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;g des Ostens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/suzhou/gartenstich2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/suzhou/gartenstich2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Also machten wir uns am Morgen in Shanghai auf zum Bahnhof um dort Tickets nach &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_%28Jiangsu%29"&gt;Suzhou&lt;/a&gt; zu besorgen. Da unsere 5 Tages Tour während der National Hollidays stattfand und in jener Woche so ziemlich jeder Chinese unterwegs ist um sein Land zu erkunden, konnten wir leider nur Tickets für den frühen Nachmittag bekommen. Also erst einmal am Bahnhof rumgelungert, noch etwas Essen gegangen und dann in einen jener Megazüge gestiegen (das Mega bezieht sich auf die Länge, auch wird in China wie am Flughafen geboardet, sprich, in größeren Städten steht der Zug mal mindestens eine halbe Stunde, in der man in aller Seelenruhe irgendwann zusteigen kann).  Am späten Nachmittag erreichten wir dann Suzhou. Da es schon auf halb 6 zu ging und viele Sehenswürdigkeiten bereits um 6 schließen sollten, sind wir vom Bahnhof, die unendlich vielen Bettler ignorierend im Eiltempo mit dem Taxi zur Nord-Tempel-Pagode. Dort wie die Japaner hoch und wieder hinunter gestürmt, schnell ein paar Fotos gemacht und weiter zum "Garten des Meisters der Netze".   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/suzhou/Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_196.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/suzhou/Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_196.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Da wir uns nun einmal im Venedig des Ostens befanden, bis zu jenem Zeitpunkt allerdings nur den einen oder anderen Kanal gesehen hatten, wollten wir nun endlich einen typischen Suzhou Kanal finden. Naiv wie wir waren, dachten wir, wenn wir einfach nur ein wenig laufen, müssen wir früher oder später auf einen romantischen Kanal stoßen. Als wir merkten, dass dies ein Trugschluss war, erbaten wir uns Hilfe von Chinesinnen. Diese zeigten uns auch freundlicherweise noch den Weg zum nächsten Internetcafe, von wo aus wir die Zimmer für die erst Nacht in Hangzhou buchen sollten (na ja, zumindest dachten wir, das Ding sei geritzt, dazu aber später mehr). Dann wieder ins Taxi und auf zu einem echt wunderschönen Kanal! Die Häuser waren richtig alt, viele Bars und Restaurants und alles wurde durch die Beleuchtung in eine atemberaubende Atmosphäre versetzt! Leider konnten wir dort unsere Seele nur kurz baumeln lassen, denn gegen 23 Uhr mussten wir wieder am Bahnhof sein, um den Zug nach Hangzhou zu besteigen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(hier gibt es viele viele bunte &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=3" target=" blank"&gt;Fotos&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/hangzhou/Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_246.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/hangzhou/Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_246.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;    Hangzho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;u - Die Schöne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Weiter ging es dann also in die Stadt, über die Marco Polo berichtete, sie sei die schönste Stadt der Welt (ist aber ja auch schon ein paar Jährchen her, als er dort gewesen ist)! Und auch ein chinesisches Sprichwort sagt: Im Himmel gibt es das Paradies und auf Erden gibt es Suzhou und &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangzhou" target=" blank"&gt;Hangzhou&lt;/a&gt;! Aber zuerst mussten wir auch dort hingelangen, also schnell noch ein Bierchen gekauft und ab in den Zug.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dort konnten wir dann unseren Augen nicht trauen. Nicht nur, das ein gerupftes Geflügel unser Fahrtbegleiter war, zu allem Überfluss war das Abteil auch noch proppe voll und wir hatten keine reservierten Sitzplätze wie auf der Hinfahrt! Außerdem gingen wir fest davon aus, dass wir auf direktem Weg nach Hangzhou fahren würden, wir sind aber zuerst zurück nach Shanghai (ab da hatten wir dann wenigsten wieder Sitzplätze) gefahren. Letzter Irrtum sorgte auch dafür, dass wir dann auch nicht etwa 2 Stunden für die 160 km Luftlinie zwischen Suzhou und Hangzhou benötigten, sondern gute 6 Stunden für die dann tatsächlich vielleicht 350 km unterwegs waren.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/hangzhou/normal_Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_235.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 335px;" src="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/albums/hangzhou/normal_Shanghai%2C_Suzhou%2C_Hangzhou_235.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Der nächste Schock kam dann in der Jugendherberge in Hanghzou. Man hatte uns doch keine Zimmer reserviert und es waren nur noch 3 Betten in einem Jungenzimmer frei. Tja, die Mädels und Danio mussten dann erst einmal Vorlieb mit der Lobbycouch nehmen, bis sie dann gegen halb acht ihr Bett beziehen konnten (wir kamen auch nur unwesentlich früher in ein richtiges Bett, so gegen 6 Uhr). Dann wurde erst mal bis 11 geschlafen, chinesisch gebrunched und danach haben Markus (mein Mitbewohner an der Tsinghua) und ich erst mal noch administrative Sachen für die Rückfahrt erledigt und wollten uns dann eigentlich am Westlake mit dem Rest der Truppe treffen. Ich bin dann allerdings wieder an einem Fotomotiv hängen geblieben, während Markus einfach weitergelaufen ist, tja, und da mein Handyguthaben aufgebraucht war und ich die anderen nicht finden konnte, war ich dann erst mal alleine in Hangzhou. Die nächsten 2 Stunden verbracht ich dann damit, Handyguthaben zu besorgen, was die reinste Odyssee war, wollte eine Fahrradtour starten was im nächsten Dilemma endete! Irgendwie schien das niedliche chinesische Rädchen nicht für europäische Muskelkraft ausgelegt gewesen zu sein und so habe ich das Kettenrad halt mal kaltverformt. Kostet ja alles nix, aber hatte dann die Schnauze gestrichen voll und bin einfach ein wenig am See entlang geschlendert, habe Fotos gemacht und wurde dann von einem Chinesen gebeten, mit der kleinen Tochter ein wenig Englisch zu üben. Der freundliche Mensch wollte mir auch anschließend helfen, meine deutschen Reisebegleiter wieder zu finden, allerdings können Chinesen nun einmal keine Karten lesen und aus diesem Grunde bin ich erst einmal in die falsche Richtung gelaufen, bis mir das ganze doch zu spanisch vorkam. Die Orientierung wieder gewonnen bin ich dann am frühen Abend in einem Oktoberfestzelt auf die anderen gestoßen.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Danach ging es dann in eine alte Straße in das alte Teehaus in Hangzhou. Aber sehet selber, wie es dort zugeht!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="470" height="406"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/302806"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/302806" width="470" height="406" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am späten Abend sind wir dann noch in eine richtig gute Jazzkneipe gegangen und haben uns von Sugarmama aus New Orleans und ihrer Band köstlich Unterhalten lassen.&lt;br /&gt;Am nächsten Vormittag sind Daniel, Markus und ich dann noch zur "Pagode of the Sixt Sence" gefahren, hatten aber keine Lust Eintritt zu zahlen und sind aus diesem Grunde auf einen der umliegenden Hügel gestiegen. Gegen 12 uhr mittags mussten wir dann auch schon wieder am Bahnhof sein um zurück nach Shanghai zu fahren. Dort hatten wir noch genug Zeit in "Pappas Bierstube" all you can Schnitzel zu machen, um dann am Abend 再见 （zai jian= auf Wiedersehen) Shanghai zu sagen und zurück nach Beijing zu fliegen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(hier gibt es viele viele bunte &lt;a href="http://tommesmc.to.funpic.de/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=4" target=" blank"&gt;Fotos&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/Auf%20dem%20Berge.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/400/Auf%20dem%20Berge.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-116083272345157797?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/116083272345157797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=116083272345157797' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/116083272345157797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/116083272345157797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2006/10/die-schne-die-hure-und-venedig.html' title='Die Schöne, die Hure und Venedig'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-115856299177380103</id><published>2006-09-18T14:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T15:45:14.583+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Andere Länder, anders!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Ja ja, ich weiß, der Spruch lautet eigentlich andere Länder, andere Sitten, aber das was nun folgt, hat sowenig mit Sitten zu tun wie ein Pekinese mit einer blutrünstigen Dogge! Ich habe euch ja beim letzten Post bereits etwas Kurioses versprochen, da ich zu jenem Zeitpunkt bereits alle Aufnahmen im Kasten hatte und ich es nun auch endlich geschafft habe, alles „Material“ hoch zu laden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aber sehet mit euren eigenen Augen folgendes Video:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="470" height="406"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/134183"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/134183" width="470" height="406" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jetzt werdet ihr euch vielleicht fragen, was daran kurios sein soll, außer, dass diese Soldaten gemeinsam irgendwelche Kung Fu Moves machen? Nun ja, Kuriosum Nummer 1:&lt;br /&gt;Die Soldaten sind nicht irgendwelche X-beliebigen Soldaten, nein, dass sind die neuen Erstsemester an der Tsinghua-University! Bevor man nämlich in China Studieren geht, hat man mal flott 3 Wochen Wehrdienst, die man – zumindest hier an der Tsinghua - auf dem Unigelände absolviert. Das gilt im Übrigen für Männlein und Weiblein. Und aus jenem Grunde war chinesische Marschmusik ein ständiger Begleiter unserer Campustouren der ersten Woche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und nun kommen wir zu Kuriosum Nummer zwei:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="470" height="406"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/134255"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/134255" width="470" height="406" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na, so etwas schon mal gesehen? Also, ich nicht! Ich weiß auch nicht was jene Übung militärisch bewirken soll, aber es war auf jeden Fall lustig anzuschauen und das Geschreie hat mir eine zentimeterdicke Gänsehaut den Rücken hinunter gejagt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, dass war’s wieder mal aus Beijing und in den nächsten Tagen kommt was zu unserer Tour in den Sommerpalast (war zwar chronologisch vor diesem Ereignis, aber die Chinausen-Soldaten schienen mir interessanter).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Euer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chinese-tools.com/jdd/public/charset/charset3/36947.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 30px;" src="http://www.chinese-tools.com/jdd/public/charset/charset3/36947.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chinese-tools.com/jdd/public/charset/charset3/24681.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 30px;" src="http://www.chinese-tools.com/jdd/public/charset/charset3/24681.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Das heißt &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dào Ēn&lt;/span&gt; und ist mein chinesischer Name. Mein chinesischer Vorname ist also &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ēn&lt;/span&gt; (bei chinesischen Namen wird erst der Nachname genannt!) und diese Silbe heißt Wohltat, Gunst, Güte. Mein chinesischer Nachname &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dào&lt;/span&gt; bedeutet Weg, Methode, Grundsatz (daher kommt &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Dàojiào&lt;/span&gt;=Taoismus). Allerdings würde wohl kein Chinese, denken, ich sei der 'Weg der Güte' oder der 'gnädige Weg', wenn er meinen chinesischen Namen hört. Für einen Chinesen klingt mein Name wohl eher etwas seltsam ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-115856299177380103?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/115856299177380103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=115856299177380103' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/115856299177380103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/115856299177380103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2006/09/andere-lnder-anders.html' title='Andere Länder, anders!'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-115831507319572947</id><published>2006-09-15T17:52:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-23T02:34:13.445+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Auf geht's...der Campus</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So, hier gibt es jetzt mal ein paar Eindrücke vom Campus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style='width:470px;height:406px;' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' data='http://www.myvideo.de/movie/128342'&gt; &lt;param name='movie' value='http://www.myvideo.de/movie/128342'/&gt; &lt;param name='FlashVars' value='DESTSERVER=http://www.myvideo.de&amp;LINKTEXT=MyVideo'/&gt; &lt;param name='AllowFullscreen' value='true' /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.myvideo.de/watch/128342' title='Rocking China I - MyVideo'&gt;Rocking China I - MyVideo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Gebäude im Hintergrund ganz am Anfang rechts sind im Übrigen die Foreign-Students Wohnheime und ein wenig später und weiter zur linken Seite die Wohnheime der kleinen Chinausen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, wie schon erwähnt geht es nun mit der Mensa weiter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object style='width:470px;height:406px;' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' data='http://www.myvideo.de/movie/129239'&gt; &lt;param name='movie' value='http://www.myvideo.de/movie/129239'/&gt; &lt;param name='FlashVars' value='DESTSERVER=http://www.myvideo.de&amp;LINKTEXT=MyVideo'/&gt; &lt;param name='AllowFullscreen' value='true' /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.myvideo.de/watch/129239' title='In der Mensa - MyVideo'&gt;In der Mensa - MyVideo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und so kann dann ein 1 Euro Menu ausschauen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/IMG_0124_1.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/400/IMG_0124_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, schaut das Hauptgebäude im 180° Winkel aus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/Hauptgeb%3F%3Fude_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 792px; height: 184px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/Hauptgeb%3F%3Fude_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und das ist die Schwimmhalle!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/schwimmhalle_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 799px; height: 265px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/schwimmhalle_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Und zu guter Letzt noch mal ein Blick über die Sportanlagen und die Wohnheime (rechts wieder die Foreign-Students Wohnheime...in dem 4. von rechts wohnen wir)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/stra%3F%3Fe%20weitwinkel2_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 803px; height: 156px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/1600/stra%3F%3Fe%20weitwinkel2_1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, dass war es auch dann erst einmal von mir (ja ja, ich habe das schon ein wenig hingeschlampt, aber ich sitze jetzt seit verdammten Stunden vor dem Notebook und habe die Schnauze für's erste gestrichen voll)! Aber in den nächsten Tagen wird es, teilweise äußerst kuriosen, Nachschub geben!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Gruß aus Beijing,&lt;br /&gt;                           Tommes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-115831507319572947?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/115831507319572947/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=115831507319572947' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/115831507319572947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/115831507319572947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2006/09/auf-gehtsder-campus.html' title='Auf geht&apos;s...der Campus'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34410703.post-115830980390622746</id><published>2006-09-15T16:36:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T16:47:16.166+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ich bin angekommen....zumindest fast!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Ich bin endlich in China angekommen...na ja, eigentlich erst physisch und es wird wohl noch eine Weile dauern, bis ich das hier alles verarbeitet habe! Aber so viel kann ich schon sagen! Es ist sau geil hier!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Außerdem habe ich es endlich mal geschafft, ein paar Bilder Online zu stellen! Leider läuft das erst mal über "MSN Spaces". Es hatte sich so viel versprechend angehört, dass man dort 500 MB Speicherplatz für Fotos zur Verfügung hat. Leider schrauben die beim Upload die Qualität ziemlich in den Keller. Na ja, ich hoffe, dass ich das irgendwie noch besser hinbekomme!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Aber erst mal gibt es jetzt die ersten kleinen Beiträge!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34410703-115830980390622746?l=rockingchina.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/feeds/115830980390622746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=34410703&amp;postID=115830980390622746' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/115830980390622746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/34410703/posts/default/115830980390622746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rockingchina.blogspot.com/2006/09/ich-bin-angekommenzumindest-fast.html' title='Ich bin angekommen....zumindest fast!'/><author><name>Tommes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17389379838756247324</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/610/3792/320/zahnb%3F%3Frste.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
