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China 05
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China 05 describes Jolanda and Jakob's own preparations for their 3-week cycling holiday along the Great Wall, from Beijing to the Golden Coast and after that to Xi'an.
Recent Posts
Re-discovering Chopstick Skills
On the 15th of Janaury, Jakob's birthday, we went to the Amsterdam restaurant “Sea Palace” to re-discover our chopstick eating skills. Everything worked out nicely and they even served our favorite dishes from China: Chicken piec...
Finally: Pictures are online!!
Pretty late in the evening and after a few days of looking through our photos from our trip to China we're finally ready to post the best of the best online! Basically viewers have two options - an external slideshow from Flickr.com and a t...
23 Hours after getting up: Finally at Home
This post might look a bit unstructured. The main reason is that at this point in time we've been awake for almost 24 hours, and have been packing, checking out, checking in, checking out and then in again, and to make a long story short we're b...
Xi'an: Goodbye China
Night train to Xi'an. Friendly and helpful Chinese. Xi'an and the terracotta army. Leaving China....
Day 23: Beijing - Xi'an: Arrival in Xi'an
Amsterdam 23/10/2005 at 15:30 Day 23: Beijing - Xi'an: Arrival in Xi'an At the station in Xi'an we found that there were absolutely no problems with the bikes. As usual the gears had been changed, but we were getting used to that. Outside the stati...
Day 22: Beijing - Xi'an: Chinese Bureaucracy
Amsterdam 23/10/2005 at 15:30 Day 22: Beijing - Xi'an: Chinese Bureaucracy ***** 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY ***** - Although we didn't realize that ourselves until on the train to Xi'an. Instead we got the day going with in-the-room “home made”...
