Foodie Friday: Green Tea

Foodie Friday: Green Tea

It’s hard to be in China and not drink tea. Every train station, bus station and public building has a hot water machine for public use and it feels like 90% of Chinese people carry a thermos around with them every day. On some trains the conductors even provide a piping hot thermos of hot [...]

China Through a Child’s Eyes

China Through a Child’s Eyes

To My Kindergarten Class – Hello from China. I came here for vacation and lots of things here are different. When the traffic light is red you are supposed to go because it it’s more fun than waiting, but when it is green you have to go slow because all the people that have red [...]

Beijing!

Beijing!

It’s official, we’ve made it around the world; or at least in my opinion. Beijing is just about as far east as we could go overland from Istanbul. Although Xi’an was technically the end of the silk road, Beijing was always the end in my head, so when we arrived I was elated. There’s so [...]

Everybody likes Kung Fu Fighting…

Everybody likes Kung Fu Fighting…

It probably shouldn’t have surprised us, but every bus or train that took us closer to Beijing seemed to take us to some place busier and more touristy. Coming through the ‘backdoor’ to China, we found ourselves in bigger and bigger cities with more people, more smog, and more noise. It was time to get [...]