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Shaolin Temple is famous for king fu and medicine. Kids start at 6, with 90% being Chinese. Also, around 90% are boys. 7K AUD a year is the fee to go to the school here. It’s not cheap. They are there from 7:20 am to 6pm. Domenic has a 12 year old son there, so […]
I joined a few TripaDeal groups on Facebook when I started booking all of these holidays. This one is the Terracotta Warriors tour. The China FB groupswere explicit about a couple of things. The flights from Australia get in REALLY late. The days are go!go!go! and the lunches and dinners are late. Blogless Sandy and […]
On Sunday, we gathered at Kate’s place for Dad’s 87th birthday. She made individual chocolate mousse pots insteadof a cake, because Dad was more likely to attempt to eat mousse. It was a lovely day. Both Kate and I are flying out of the country today, me to Africa and she to India, so we’ve […]
1.3 million people in Kyoto. It’s the second biggest city after Tokyo. And this morning, those people were COLD. It was strange day, weather wise… a very Melbourne day with all sorts of things going on. ”No matter what the weather is outside, inside is always sunny!” said Ben on the bus. As we passed […]
We only spent the morning here, before taking the afternoon to drive to Kyoto, but I could have easily spent longer here. It was fantastic. This is one of the iconic sights in the famous Kenrokuen Garden – the Kotoji Lantern. It has two legs instead of the usual one. This garden is one of […]
This morning I woke up and I could see Mt Fuji from my hotel window. I was so excited. We travel to see her tomorrow, but even if the weather turns bad, I’ve seen her with snow. Today was an optional tour, costing around $100 AUD. It was money well spent as far as I […]
Today was a driving day, with over 4 hours between Hoi An and Hue. Hue is like Vietnam’s Rome… the history village. It was the capital of the country for a couple of hundred years from 1809 onwards, with the king’s weekday and weekend palaces here. During the war, however, the Pink Palace, which was […]
Today was a rainy day. There were a couple of optional excursions on offer in the morning, but Robin decided that we’d all be too miserable in the rain, so we had a lazy morning before heading into the regularly scheduled program. We went to a veggie farm and cooking school. It was great! With […]
Look! It’s the Mekong! On the way out of town, we passed by the courthouse and there were many bridal parties getting ready to go in and do the deed. “Ahhh, many stupid men…” said Robin sadly. Homelessness in Vietnam is handled differently. Vans with a doctor and police inside drive around. Old people get […]
What’s top of my mind: I’m so glad I retired! This is the first day back at work after the summer holidays for Victorian teachers. I woke up early in solidarity, but I can’t tell you how glad I am that I’m not having to trudge off to McKinnon to spend all day at work, […]
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