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China: Countryside and Red Fans
Finding something doesn't mean that we were looking for it, nor does it intend that the object was lost. Oh the element of surprise in finding something we never knew, nor imagined! That is the element of traveling that…
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What I Didn’t Expect….
What I didn't expect to see in China: -Pink is the "in" color. -babies are bundled colorfully and are carried (strollers are seldom used.) I see babies at construction sights, on the streets, in the fields… -Instead of…
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Li River…. Life is but a Dream
The Li river runs alongside of Yangshuo. Slow, steady, serene, and mystical. The Dragon's Teeth mountains are of stone, piercing up to the sky. Flying in from Hong Kong the aerial view was breathtaking, floating down the river alongside of…
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Postcards from Yangshuo, China
Pagoda on the Lil River. Brocanting on the backstreet of Yangshuo. Whether what I bought was old or not is the question, yet the pleasure of meeting this older man and being lead down the alley…
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I Heart Hong Kong
Irina, thank you! Alfredo, thank you! I would have never imagined Hong Kong in such a way: Boats that sail right into the center of town… Graceful steel and glass modernity. Ultra-chic glamour… An architect's paradise… Grocery stores with Gold…
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The Italian: Alfredo and the Local
When in a foreign country the best way to see and taste it is to have a friend show you around. If not paying for a local guide is well worth it. Irina is Ukrainian though has lived…