Nancy's Travel Stories (2 Stories)

Worried Safety

Date: 2008-08-15 ; Tags: China travel

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The mustiness was a bit much to expect when the room cost a proverbial arm and leg in this Old District of Beijing. For the equivalent of about twenty dollars, I was expecting an embedded plasma TV, king size bed and a satanicly hot heating system.

What I got instead was an aged Samsung tube, an undersized bed and a non-working electric heater that connected to a wall outlet; the wires

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24 hours in Zhejiang Province

Date: 2008-06-13 ; Tags: Zhejiang

Hangzhou

Having a rare common weekend off, my American friend and I opted to travel to a place we'd heard a lot about. Hengdian is supposedly the Hollywood of China, and we even went so far as to check out the website. In true Chinese form, it was impossible to maneuver with a lot of sparkly graphics that serve no purpose, and was frustratingly vague. The only information we managed to glean was that th

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