True - PR investment in tourist image does tend to lead to lying, direct or indirect, by private business as well as by local administrations - pretty universal - but faking AQI, as in the link you presented, is really too much.
Can't give you recent information, but in my past experience, in the US pool conditions and supervision is generally pretty good - meaning, well, I can't remember wanting to complain about anything beyond maybe the Ph was not right (too much chlorine), and that they were sometimes crowded. No real problems in Hong Kong or Paris either - I'm a fairly enthusiastic swimmer. Yes of course there must certainly be exceptions to 'good'. Your comment about your reading about pool conditions and supervision is very vague - where is it that all these pool conditions are so bad? And in comparison to pool conditions - where - England? What are conditions that are not 'poor'? Obviously nowhere is anything perfect.
Dreary to be reminded that this kind of thing happens - reflects serious social irresponsibility, especially in (some, at any rate) provincial and local administrations - hard to know how widespread it is, but my hunch is that it is not nearly rare enough.
Sh*t happens, choose your game, good luck to everybody.
Actually, what my friend was referring to was the way those of us from more northerly, wetter climates begin to think it gets cold and rainy here, after a few years - but cf. where?
Not sure how the Middles Easterners, Mediterraneans, Southeast Asians and Indians cope.
AQI and tobacco processing - interesting. I haven't had severe eye irritation in Kunming, but I don't live in the north.
I pay no attention to UV index.
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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.
Daughter of Flying Tiger visits memorial 73 years after father's death
发布者The AVG, the original flying Tigers, were a mercenary group of American airmen under the command of Claire Chennault. The AVG was disbanded in July of 1942, but following their disbandment the name was attached to the airmen of the regular US Army Air Corps, who flew out of Kunming, for the most part, until the end of World War II. Some of the original AVG members resented this, but the name pretty much stuck and was used in war propaganda. William Wallace must have been a member of the US Army Air Force (Corps?), to judge by the dates of his participation in the war effort and of his death.
Both the AVG and the air force played very significant parts in providing air cover for ground operations and shooting down Japanese airplanes.
Yunnan to spend 500 billion on roads
发布者Good, important.
But of course the machine running this operation is still going to be producing increased relative poverty.
Yading Nature Reserve: A hidden gem in southwest China
发布者Looks & sounds beautiful. I agree with you about the wisdom of a bit more acclimatization.
When Yunnan's Yi dress up as tigers
发布者Plenty of tigers in Yunnan a century ago, especially down around the borders with Laos & Myanmar.
Spring Festival news: Drugs, fraud and saving the Nujiang
发布者Articles 1 & 3: capitalism marches on.