Tag Archives: Guangdong province

One For The Team

Posted on December 30, 2012 by cecilie

This is how it started. We had dived into an upmarket restaurant because the temperature was dropping fast and it was raining; we just couldn’t bear the thought of another meal with our backs to an open door, huddled around … Continue reading →

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Guangdong Delight

Posted on May 17, 2012 by cecilie

After I started writing for famed newspaper South China Morning Post (their Post Magazine on Sundays) it seems this blog has gone to hell. Now I’m getting paid to write what I would normally put here. I like getting paid. … Continue reading →

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Revellers Without Cantonese

Posted on December 1, 2010 by cecilie

Ah, Guangdong province! For some, their closest holiday destination, for others, scary black hole of death. Guess which category I belong to. This time we decided to avoid transport hub Guangzhou at all cost, seeing it was the grand super … Continue reading →

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It’s Unfortunately Working

Posted on October 4, 2010 by cecilie

Have just come back from yet another extremely fulfilling and surreal trip to the hinterland – this time Shaoguan in the north-west of Guangdong province to which only the coincidence of October 1st, China’s national day, led us. It turned … Continue reading →

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Adventure Travel in Guangdong

Posted on March 18, 2010 by cecilie

Whew, that didn’t half take long! But here it is: Guangdong province from the inside: Come with, come with. You won’t regret it.

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2009 … Yeah. We’ll See.

Posted on January 5, 2009 by cecilie

2008 – a shitty year for the world, apparently, and as usual Hong Kong’s intellectual elite, those hallowed brains of the fung shui nobility, had the answer: The number 8, normally lucky, is fed up with being used for everything. … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary Theory

Posted on December 29, 2008 by cecilie

I’ve come up with an amazing new theory. Weather is 80%. Of what? You ask. Of everything!!! Take this holiday for example. We’re wandering around beautiful hovelage and stupendous scraggy crags BUT it’s pissing down. And 9 degrees. So that … Continue reading →

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