I walked around the famous statue “Rodin’s the Thinker” many many times. I kept thinking, what the statue was thinking, and what Rodin was thinking …
May be … we all shall spend more time to think, instead of talking …
Category: Travel
Shanghai – One Hundred Years’ Old
It was pretty new to me. A water village closes to Shanghai city – Zhou Zhuang. It’s new to me because there are dozens of shops there and somehow every restaurant, inn, cake shop, souvenir shop etc. etc. all claim they have one hundred years’ old histories. They must be kidding ā¦ you can see how greediness destroyed this beautiful water village.
Anyway, a picture of one of the old “restaurants” there.
OT: Travel Guide Books
No matter where I travel, I would visit the bookstore there. So I visited the biggest bookstore in Shanghai in my conference trip there and as usual, I visited the travel book section first.
The first book I picked up, among many books in the same category, reads “Beijing : The Travel Guide”. And I flipped to one chapter and it starts with “Dear sir and madam, in front of you is the Great Chinese Wall …”.
Ooops … believe it or not, this is a book for travel guides. A “reference” book for this group of “professionals” such that they can study / memorise the history and stories.
Amazing …
Journey To the West … Part 4
So what is a good hotel experience ? From a hotel costed me US$ 500 a night ?
I spent 5 nights in that expensive, luxury hotel in Paris city center … and I had 5 breakfasts in 5 mornings … and guess what ?
The staff there asked me 5 times the room number … talk about good hotel experience.
Journey To the West … Part 3
So shall we trust online weather report ?
I checked the Paris weather site, SkyNews site, and CNN site – before and during the trip … all reported cloudy, showers and rainy days. But see what I got …
M.Y. Lessons Learnt 