Travel and Tales with Moi

5/9/07

Just returned home from 23 day in China.

On August 12 2007, Ron and I arrived in Beijing and stayed overnight to recover from the flight before heading off the next day to Chengde to start our adventure. The first couple of hours involved trying to get the legs working after 14 hours of cattle class flying, you know knees up where god never intended them to go, bad food and a three hour layover that you didnt want to happen LOL

We explored the immediate area of the hotel and found a huge market that sold everything that you normally see in "Antique" markets here in Melbourne. Hmmmmm guess they really are yesterday's antiques.

We made the big purchase of a couple of pairs of chopsticks so we had some control of what we put in our mouths over the coming weeks.

Our first run-in with the Chinese menu's occured at our hotel. Being a seafood lover we ventured into the resteraunt area of the hotel to discover the wall of live food to choose from, this included, flounder, schrimps, lobster, crab, turtle, seahorses and other strange looking items.

This was the for runner to many interesting adventures when it came to dinner.

Further updates and pics to come