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.
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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.
Kunming educator finalist for Global Teacher Prize
发布者OK, Dazzer, such policies can go wrong, but then there's the issue of providing the best of everything for those with the most resources, including cash in the bank.
Chinese-owned factory attacked in Myanmar, straining bilateral ties
发布者@ Peter: I agree - 'lone happy confederate'? Maybe in Vientiane government circles; elsewhere, the average person doeswn't think about it, tho in Luang Namtha, for instance, I've heard some resentment from local people.
@ Trapeze: I agree - have always thought that occupation of a factory by workers does tend to indicate that they have a rather definite point of view.
Kunming police begin drive to register e-bikes citywide
发布者My appreciation of the advantages of tracking depends on my trust of the trackers. For ebikes in Kunming, I tend to trust the present effort because I think it will help locate stolen etc. ebikes - tracking of individuals can be, and is, done in more effective ways, and I don't particularly trust the goals of the trackers engaged in such. So I attempt to avoid them when it seems worthwhile to bother about it, but I don't have any serious worries about it in the current social environment. But then all environments are undergoing constant change.
Kunming police begin drive to register e-bikes citywide
发布者Granted that GPS can be used to track people on ebikes, but there are so many ways to be tracked these days (cellphones, license plates, street cameras, etc.), many of which are virtually unavoidable, that I'm not going to worry about a GPS on an ebike.
Yunnan coffee bean output grows 50 percent
发布者@ Dazzer: Not at the moment, but monocultures are a problem.
My point was just that I like the coffee.