Friday morning was spent quietly in two buddhist temples. Interesting, and a calm and refreshing break from the insanity-inducing shopping. Might have found some kind of inner peace there among the incense, statues, monks, and praying people. In any case we found a wonderful vegetarian restaurant. A-hah! I knew there existed…
Tag: In English
-
-
China tour with Akademiska Kapellet, part 5
At long last, the travel blog continues! Soon regular (or at least as regular as they get with me) updates will commence again. From Hangzhou we hurried on to Shanghai, a couple of hours by bus away. Or at least that was the distance between our hotel in Hangzhou and…
-
Intermission of busyness
Ye gods. So many things are happening this summer that there is hardly any time to blog at all. I still have the last part of the China tour to describe, and then there is my work towards actually taking that bachelor’s degree in astrophysics. Now, however, it’s off towards…
-
China tour with Akademiska Kapellet, part 4
On Monday we went up absurdly early to catch a high-speed train to Hangzhou. Naturally there were traffic jams all the way there so we got there too late, but apparently the tour manager managed to make the train wait for us. Crazy, but nice. Despite general tiredness and nothing…
-
China tour with Akademiska Kapellet, part 3
The following day we waved good-bye to Beijing, and went by bus to Tianjin. Since we were free this day as well, we headed out on town to explore (at least a tiny part of) the city. Nobody seemed to speak any English at all, so we showed the adresses…
-
China tour with Akademiska Kapellet, part 2
Time marches on. Ye gods, four weeks have already passed since I got home. I never got very far with the travel blog, but I made a promise, so here comes at last the continuation! The friday was dedicated solely to tourism. We started out visiting the great wall, or…
-
China tour with Akademiska Kapellet, part 1
Urghh, midsummer coma… Slept ridiculously long today, even by my standards. Think I must have needed it, though, both after a fun party yesterday and not having fully recuperated from the tour to China yet. Since I failed to write a travel summary a couple of days ago like I…
-
…
Turns out the higher you fly, the harder you crash. Bloody nuisance, this thing called “having feelings”.
-
LinCon and the awesomeness of reality
Another gaming convention come and gone. Another weekend of feeling utterly at home and enjoying every second of good company and board games and general geekiness. Even the signature social panic managed to stay away this time. Might be a one-time lucky accident, or I might have leveled up on…
-
Whee
Huh. I guess there really is such a thing as a win-win situation. A situation where something either will happen—and it will be awesome; or it won’t happen—and it will also be awesome, must count as one, right? Please ignore the awkward punctuation in the previous sentence; I don’t think…