And now, 2 hours later, and not for the first time, I cannot get online WITHOUT using my ExpressVPN.
Where is Cylon Central?
PS: Possibly related information - there is a black hole inside the ATM machine at the bank on the corner of Wenlinjie and Wenhuaxiang that eats bank cards.
When I use ExpressVPN my location, it seems, is not entirely 'randomized' - through ExpressVPN I connect to Yahoo through, say, Los Angeles, and I get a weather report for Taoyuan City, which is in Shanxi Province, PRC.
Last week I used ExpressVPN in Luang Namtha, Laos and got a weather report for Phongsaly, Laos.
My conclusion: Yahoo, and therefore probably OTHER PEOPLE, seem to know the country I'm in.
Is this a valid conclusion? I thought the idea of a VPN was that it made location entirely invisible.
I'm sure the cat would like to go with you but he/she might change her mind if she knew she had to spend months in quarantine.
After the festival they all go back to the moon.
I like gokunming, but are you thinking of picking a Chinese city to move to on the basis of whether or not it has an English-language website directed towards foreigners?
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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.
Getting Away: A return to Shaxi
Posted byMost of the villages in the valley are Bai, an official minority. There are also supposedly Lisu in the hills to the east - I haven't gone up there, but they shouldn't be more than a few hours' hike at most.
Getting Away: A return to Shaxi
Posted byOn its way to becoming overly touristified, like many other places that have already gone too far in that direction - but still very much a great place. Thing is, the town of Sideng is only one point in the Shaxi Valley, & with a bicycle you can ride up & down the valley for a very long way.
The Shaxi Cultural Center & Guest House in Sideng is a very nice place to stay in an old courtyard house - very comfortable & friendly but not over commercialized.
Yunnan GDP third fastest-growing in China
Posted byAll good, except for the income distribution problem, which gets worse just about everywhere.
China moves to lessen air pollution, Yunnan excluded
Posted by@Willie Gee, I think a lot of it may be going to make the city fancier & more 'modern'; and, through that effort, into the pockets of those who live on profits and/or their friends in government.
The last Mongols of Yunnan
Posted by@Alex: I think Kubilai Khan, Genghis Khan's grandson, commanded the troops - was your ancestor, youngest son of Genghis Khan, with them? Possible, but it seems odd - would like to hear more about this.