Travel

[flickr photo=3067689749 size=small align=right vspace=10 hspace=10] Visited February 2008A friend of ours generously let us stay in his amazing slope side holiday mountain house. It is situated right on the…

We traveled via mini-bus from Yangshou via Guilin to Longsheng (3 hours) and from there on into to mountains to the little famous village of Ping-an. Ping-an is situated on…

From Hong Kong we flew to Guilin (1 hour flight) and arrived in the evening. Had a spectacular taxi ride to Yangshuo and it seemed our driver had watch formula…

On day 10 Nuri hit Hong Kong in full force and it was too dangerous to go out. Fortunately the hotel has many facilities (6 restaurants, 4 bars, a gym…

Finally not a packed day, went down to Hong Kong and all the way up to Victoria Peak for The view. Took the Star Ferry to get there, and also…

We slept in a little today after the long gold medal after party and exhausting previous days. The Olympics are truly "top sport" and not only for the participants. We…

Today we visited the 10.000 Buddha monastery and did some shopping at a very large mall. Had some great Thai food and prepared for the big night of the equestrian…

Today we traveled to Hong Kong (actually Sha Tin, is close to Hong Kong). The Flight took 3 hours and 30 minutes by taxi from the airport to Sha Tin.…

In the morning we visited the famous Wangfujing shopping street and the Tiananmen square (largest public square in the world) (dutch: plein van de poort van de hemelse vrede). It…

Yesterday the Olympic security checkpoint people discovered Ilona's banner flag with "Ilona groet Kai". They looked if any of the words on the flag where on the forbidden word list.…