Day: 285 I am at home now after the last seven weeks wandering about China, Tibet and Mongolia. I was less than impressed with the northern region of China, but as a gateway to the amazing places in Tibet and Mongolia it was a necessary evil. Here are some of my favorites from the last [...]
Day:284 In a city that throughly depresses me, I was happy to spend the day wandering though the endless catacombs of what Felicia and I dubbed “The Great Mall of China”. My flight home is early tomorrow and Felicia’s back to Singapore is in the afternoon, a few meals and a few hours at my [...]
Day: 283 So in a city where you can’t see the sky because of insane amounts of pollution, the greatest athletes are going to converge, next summer, to achieve their worst times and scores of their careers. How anyone expects these stars to give their best when their eyes are bleary from the particles in [...]
Day: 282 Felicia (who obviously eats some disgusting things) and I arrive at the Beijing train station around two this afternoon, a taxi ride and we had found a room in an underground hostel beneath China’s biggest shopping mall. After some well deserved wandering from being cramped in a train for two days (which included [...]
Day:266 I have always said (although this being the first time on “Mom Says…”) that if people are not related or have know each other for at least a decade it is near impossible to travel together for an extended amount of time and not annoy the shit out of each other; with one [...]
Day: 241 I finally managed to sleep until 8am; so fully rested and ready to tackle the day I had a cup of coffee and an omelet before hitting the odorific streets of Beijing. Having already got passed caring about the usual morning smells of decaying trash and urine that seem to coat Beijing’s alleys, [...]
Day: 240 Staring at the roof in my dorm room, it’s 5:30 in the morning again and I am wide awake. Too early to be sane but too late to fall asleep again, my alarm was set to go off in an hour. I get up and get to work, blogging, downloading pictures and playing [...]
Day: 239 With full intention to be completely over my jet lag, I rolled out of bed this morning to a breakfast of vegetable dumplings. The days intention was to see other sections of the city that I didn’t take in in my whirlwind tour yesterday morning (which is to say I didn’t see much). [...]
Day: 238 With the effects of jet lag in full effect I woke up this morning as the sun came up after only about three hours of sleep. I wanted to have a peek around, and since my body didn’t feel like sleeping anymore I headed up to Tiananmen square to see if I could [...]
Day: 237 “Mr. Lobert Paetz please make known yourself at the gate.” Funny pronunciation of my name aside, I had been slightly worried about making my next flight in Tokyo, we were running late and my connection time was slight, but obviously I had doubted the services of this Japanese airline. I don’t know why [...]
