Booking next trip to China today. Always so exciting.
 

I love going there, and booking the flights and hotels are always exciting.

Some highlights this time, will include me going a few hours away from where i normally stay. Where i am going there are very few foreigners. I'm going to a hot springs a couple hours outside of that city. I don't expect to see any foreigners around. I am hoping by the end of this trip i can easily ask for directions, navigate my way through a menu without pictures for basic items anyway.(Chicken, noodles, etc). Basic comments about items around me, that is nice...what is that called? Basic weather etc etc

I'm going to film a bunch of the city this time as they have so many awesome things as part of their architecture. A 200 metre skeleton of a Dragon beside a road and park is what i'm going to try and get a really good clip of. Groups of people training with nunchuks in the park, as well as 100 senior citizens doing Tai chi. There are a few places where you can catch parkour runners also, it is big there i guess. The lights in the city at night are amazing. I will get some nice video of that as well. LED lights are everywhere, and we don't have anything like it here.

Since i am jogging a bit these days i also want to film myself running in a few places. It is almost like running through with an invisible force field in front. People move out of the way like a truck was coming through. They stare like they saw a ghost.

Oh and hire another programmer full time, and have an assistant go from part time to full.

I cant get enough of China. Don't go there to do adult business. But if you have non adult business, it is clean, safe. The people are nice, to me at least. The work ethic is better then anywhere else i have seen. You still find bad apples, but overall way better then any other place i have tried.

Beer is cheap if you are outside of Shanghai. In Shanghai i have only found expensive bars, really nice but even more expensive then going out in Toronto all night. However if you go into mainland china prices drop way way down.



So who wants to go to china..haha

how do you get around the language barrier? do most speak english?

Well for business i have an assistant who speaks perfect english. If we were both to write an essay she would get better marks for grammar i bet as well..lol
Most programmers there can at least read and write short form english.

In shanghai, you can find english many places. Over priced tourist areas have english speakers. However where i go, once i leave my hotel in the morning, that is it. No english anywhere..lol Taxis i can say left..right..straight...here...stop in Mandarin. Food is mostly pointing to picture menus if they don't have one in english. Although i have picked up quite a bit. one word sentences. Chicken...noodles...beer etc I can understand how much something is and respond with my counter offer which is lower, in Mandarin.

The people are nice, even a little effort to say thanks in Mandarin and they will help you.

please tell me where this factory is.

I know it sounds shallow, but i know that China is somewhere i will never, ever visit...

to each their own...i have Scotland on my list also..lol

of places to go i mean...once i learn the local language a bit better ill head to Scotland

I'd rather go to China than to India...
China has modern infrastructure and is developing quickly...

http://www.beijingimpact.com/manufac...guangzhou.html

soon to come
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...et-trains.html

can't stop watching :1orglaugh

Only China I've been to is HK which is not really china I would say.

On my list for sure to visit!

I rode one of them in Shanghai....took a picture of us going 299 Km/h pretty cool.

Im heading there in March for a few weeks.

Shanghai, Hong Kong and a few smaller cities.

Any recommendations would be great.

Sounds really cool. I hope you post video and pics when you get back, or while you're still there.

Canadians needs a Visa to enter China, yeah?

Was just watching this a few hours ago...

You've been around me enough to know you'll be fine in Scotland :winkwink:

flights are cheap right now
im also going in march..booking now.

I know Shanghai fairly well, and have a cool hotel you can stay at.. right on the Bund river in a good location...just le me know. its about 60-80 CDN a night...5 star...they have a western breakfast which is really nice...walking distance to the main shopping street.

yeah its roughly 100...and you need to go down to university ave to get it stamped

China is clean, safe, and nice..

was at the trade fair in guangzhou end of last year..

also visited ningbo(beautiful manhattan like city), beijing, & shanghai..

I like china, but the lack of english was a downer... have fun and safe travels..

remember your vpn login :)

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Have blast :)

u lost me at the trains, i fucking love trains....

but are you sure faster than Japanese?

here in spain; barcelona to madrid they go 300kph