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A little bit of Venice in the east. Huge fake Venice. Virtually empty apart from numerous brides and grooms taking pre wedding photos.

Oysters and vermicelli grilled in garlic, chilli and special sauce. Grilled octopus tentacles. One Dalian cold beer. 44Yuan. Dalianlaojie night bazaar.

Dalian Nth China. Large steamed seafood basket and a cold beer. 74Yuan.

I am currently in Nth China. Using an AirAlo e-sim. Expensive. $100 USD for 50gb for 90 days but it works fine. Using surf shark VPN. Not so good.

Korean BBQ in Shanyang Nth China. One of the best I have eaten at......and I've been to plenty.

More Penfolds last night. The explanation for the unlabelled Baijiu was that it is bottled this way so that it does not draw unnecessary attention to extravagance when drinking at official occasions. The contents were top shelf. Another only in China moment.

No shortage of Penfolds at dinner last night despite the ban.

Following on from an earlier CE post. Hire bikes and scooters are everywhere in Shenyang. They do appear to have designated locations to leave them and people who routinely tidy them up. The plastic e-scooters are a silent threat with people buzzing around everywhere including footpaths.

Bibimbap in Nth China. Meal for two for under $10 AUD. Followed up with late night snack of Octopus on a stick and a sensational durian and cheese desert.

Attended the local police station today to register with the public security bureau. This is a requirement for aliens staying in a private residence. While completing the process the officer has a computer screen facing me asking to verify information as they type. In another only in China...

Arrived in Shenyang yesterday. Happy to report that my Airalo Asian eSim works well and allows access to all the websites I use. Went to dinner with friends. The main street of Shenyang very crowded as usual last night. Possibly 20% of people still wearing masks. There has been a lot of...

From my point of view it's mostly a build it and move on. New developments in most cases have garden areas with ponds and fountains for example. Almost every older development I have been in the gardens have not been well maintained and the ponds and fountains are not working. People only seem...

They reduced the speed of all high speed trains by 50kph after some sort of safety enquiry quite a while ago. I have travelled on that Beijing Tianjin train quite a few times and it initially was 350kph back in around 2010. The enquiry may have been after the Wenzhou accident in 2011 but I'm...

Are they weighing your bags at station entrances? There is a 20KG limit on high speed trains that was never enforced on our many previous trips. On our last few pre covid trips we were pulled up and were overweight. (luckily it was at our local station and Mrs Woodyren knew someone who knew...

Mrs Woodyren has been in China since we departed our Singapore cruises in June. We meet back in Singapore on Sunday for 24 nights of cruising to Japan and back. We will then head to China together for what will be my first post pandemic visit. I have been granted a three year multi entry visa...

Bong Bong Rd.

Our flight is a night flight so we chose the bulkhead seats 10D &10G. Any issues? I guess there is a chance that we get bumped if there are parents with babies requiring the basinet seats.

Just booked 2 x QFF award business class China Airlines tickets. YVR-TPE with a 5 day stopover and then TPE-ICN. May next year. Had a few of the previously mentioned issues with logging into the tickets on the CI website. Called Qantas and the customer service agent selected our requested seats...

Thanks GA. I called Flight Centre today who called Qantas on the number you suggested. The agent replied that Qantas will process the refund within 12-16 weeks after which FC will then refund me to the original form of payment. Seems like things are moving along now with Qantas and FC.

As an aside to this. What happens to the money that was paid IF a person fails to get a refund or use their flight credit on a booking made with a travel agent?