If it's money you're worried about, take the train to Guangzhou, change to fast train to Shenzhen, cross border, take commuter train to Kowloon & stay in Chungking Mansions for HK$200/night (with family it will be a bit more, of course). When I'm in Hong Kong I eat for about HK$200/day. Shame to go all that way & not bother to look around the city.
"Simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau
That's William Burroughs.
Meeting will be at The Park at 6:30PM, I think.
Good post, vicar, but the thing is that while the internet is providing all sorts of information, it is also screening out other information - like, where you are, who's in front of you, birds singing, etc. In short, it can be misused, and is, and becomes a crutch for those who don't adequately develop skills for human confrontation with matter, or for subtle (i.e., not merely written or spoken) communication with the human beings and other life forms it embodies.
It shouldn't be an either/or choice, but for all too many it is becoming one. I choose not to use it in the middle of dinner parties, conversations with physically-present (i.e., 'real') people, observations of landscapes, interactions with people I don't know but might, or as interference with my relationship to the material world generally. So I keep the internet at home.
Best wishes Dan. My impression is that somebody - probably poor - does collect it from next to the bins, and that leads to a useful bowl of rice for somebody. I don't know where it ends up next, tho.
No results found.
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Lijiang Old Town bans certain businesses, promotes others
发布者Overall seems like a good idea, though I don't see what's wrong with selling food barbecued over an open fire. Not sure it will take decades to bring back a good reputation. Question of 'locals' being innovative: I wonder how many businesses are run by Lijiang locals?
At the top of the Nujiang Canyon: Life in Bingzhongluo
发布者Yet another good one from Jim.
Yunnan's Myanmar borderlands becoming more accessible
发布者Sounds like an interesting place to visit, but $40/day for a guide for 14 days?
And you mention a Catholic church - okay, but I think Kengtung was also a missionary base for American Baptists in the late 19th century, no?
Rock climbing with underprivileged kids in rural Yunnan
发布者Must have been fun!
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者Doesn't look to me that the bikes have been scrapped.