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  1. Standing between carriages on an old Chinese train watching the conductor shovel the coal next to me into the carriage heating system.
  2. Arrived back in Jinan for the night -city 10 day 3!
  3. Dezhou very progressive. Known as China's solar city, all the traffic lights, street lights and bus stops are solar powered. Photos soon.
  4. Chicken here amazing - unique flavour apparently because the soup base is 300 years old
  5. Waiting for a table at Dezhou's most famous chicken restaurant whilst they cleanup after a wedding. Nut and party popper remains everywhere.
  6. Getting bailed out on a spicy noodle order in a text only menu place by a 15 year old with perfect English
  7. In Shandong Qixia is famous for apples, Rushan for carrots and Laiyang for pears. In Laiyang shopping for a nice pear.
  8. Evil web cafes driving Internet addiction buzz topic here http://ow.ly/KZrh, but this one seems disappointingly normal - qq & games mainly
  9. After teppanyaki trying to transfer a ppt from web work e-mail to Internet fail laptop and back via editing in a random Laixi net cafe
  10. I wish I knew. In the back of a clearly lost car, despite satnav, going offroad between Laizhou and Laixi but we could be anywhere!
  11. Looking around Zhaoyuan which apparently produces 10% of China's gold. Little bling on display on the streets today though sadly...
  12. China is very grey today. Shanghai was grey, and 1200km later Yantai is even greyer.
  13. Starting a 4 day tour of Shandong. Too many barriers to easy tweeting here now, so that's why no recent posts - but got a way in this trip
  14. Wandering through the Lan Kwai Fong festival eating Cumberland sausages.
  15. Good night in Hong Kong last night - pisco sours in Upper House then Argentinian steak at Wooloomooloo, both brilliant.
  16. Hong Kong this weekend - freedom to tweet!
  17. Chilling out in Guilin earlier in week and now Sanya. Pure luxury - Jay-Z and Kanye should be rapping about Hainan not the Turks and Caicos!
  18. White rabbit in a cage outside a Xiangfan restaurant last night. I'm used to picking out fish, but this seemed harsh. http://trunc.it/26oy5
  19. Starting taxi fare in Xiangfan is 2.5RMB, cheapest I've seen in China. Might say a lot about the city, we'll see. Now trying to find food.
  20. Checking into Xiangfan hotel. First time I've seen this -the local government make you fill out a Foreigner Disease Prevention questionnaire