Don't know about the Viet Nam side, but the new line on the Chinese side must certainly be standard gauge. The old (French-built) RR was narrow-gauge on the Chinese side, and also (I'm pretty sure) on the Viet Nam side.
Walmort.
Walter, no bus?
Whether it's physical scarring or not is perhaps a matter of opinion; mental scarring you can blame on the husband, perhaps.
Suggest such be made illegal for those under 18, and more than a fine for the parents or you'll get the obvious: fines for the rich are not the same punishment or, more importantly, deterrent as the same fine for the poor.
Thoroughly bored with superpowers, including those of such slick urbane psychopaths as James Bond.
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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.
Popular night market locations closed, ban appears permanent
发布者I think street vendors are fine, although not nearly so many together as are on Wenhuaxiang.
As for the chengguan, I hope enough get in hot water to eliminate the pay-to-look-the-other-way syndrome.
Popular night market locations closed, ban appears permanent
发布者Seems to me that the clearance of this market is, on balance, a good thing, but such determined activity by the chengguan, apparently carried out in the unnecessarily rough manner which has been their trademark, must have been at the orders of some serious source in government or Party, at some level. Would like to know what level that was, and why it all seems to have come down so vigorously and all at once (the timing, just before Chunjie, doesn't strike me as odd - there's usually a coming-to-an-end and then beginning-anew theme around this time of year)?
Getting Away: Yunnan's eerie Wumao Earth Forest
发布者Hey, great photos. I've long heard of the 'earth forest' but somehow the thing never sounded that interesting to me, but thanks to your photos I now have a different point of view.
Kunming to put 45,000 public use bikes on roads
发布者Seems to me the deposit might be returned only after the bike has been returned, and vice versa. Naturally, profit-seekers here have to be controlled by law, registration, etc., and not allowed to run off with the deposits. I don't understand that people would junk the bikes somewhere if it meant they'd lose Y299.
Kunming to put 45,000 public use bikes on roads
发布者Tiger, thanks for the Guardian article - seems the refundable Y299 is a good idea.