Mademoiselle Roy Travels The World

[...] Chinese sweets on his cycle. In the background you can see the illuminated Goose Pagoda. Chinese people dancing on the north square of Goose Pagoda [...]

[...] lunch for me after we arrived in the apartment. This just again showed me how welcoming Chinese people are. He then mentioned, that this apartment is actually only a place for him to rest from [...]

[...] So in total we were 8 people; 7 Chinese, 1 German. It was my first big get together with only Chinese people and I was really excited about. They ordered a lot of food, which was put on a big round [...]

[...] a motor and we will arrive in Yangshuo faster than without. I was sharing the boat with two Chinese people and a guy from Taiwan. His English was really good and we had  a pleasant chat during the [...]

[...] at the breakfast place and I asked my friend to check when I would have to leave for the train station and she said look it’s really close you only need 20 minutes. However, the train station she [...]

[...] staircase to the 1st floor Look what I got, when I left. So cute. I then made my way to the train station. When checking for the best way on the map a guy approached me and asked if I needed help. I [...]

[...] are the same. So on the first day here, when my friend Ines picked me up from the train station by motor bike I got an impressive view of how traffic in Beijing works. Speaking of [...]

[...] definitely the best I had so far. Stephany and her husband then accompanied me to the train station where I took the train back to Chengdu. Now back in Chengdu (and it’s still raining) I [...]

[...] a coffee, no it was more cause I was desperate for internet. Unfortunately Felix, my couchsurfing host up here in Chengdu hasn’t got WLAN nor a VPN on his computer. He offered me using his [...]

[...] , I was teaching Chinese people about the Berlin wall and Berlin in general. Gang my Couchsurfing host up here is working as an English teacher at Yunnan University and asked me, if I could [...]

[...] that due to the lack of internet in Chengdu I haven't had enough time to find a Couchsurfing host up here in Guilin. Hotels are not so expensive here, so I decided to get myself a [...]

[...] minutes until I had my departure stamp and left Mainland China. I then took the train to my Couchsurfing host's apartment. His name is Alex and he is a local. He works as a kinder garden teacher, [...]

[...] Kong and will be arriving there in a couple of hours. I know Hong Kong is way different than mainland China, which makes me way excited. [...]

[...] backpackers since the 80s, so I’ll probably stay there for a few more days before leaving mainland China for Hong Kong. Huangguoshu waterfalls To keep it short; a breakdown of the schedule looks [...]

[...] fairly small. I think it took me 30 minutes until I had my departure stamp and left Mainland China. I then took the train to my Couchsurfing host's apartment. His name is Alex and he is a [...]

[...] Sorry guys, I haven't posted anything since Tuesday. It's just that I'm working my ass of to lose some [...]

[...] Sorry guys I haven't posted for quite a while, but times have changed and other things are more important [...]

[...] Sorry guys I haven't posted anything for quite a while. It's just that other things in life getting more [...]

[...] Sorry guys for my lack of posts up here. Same than in Hong Kong I also had company in Japan that kept me [...]

Today I took a 30 minutes ferry ride to Lamma Island. My friend Ines recommended it to me, when I was seeing her in Beijing and I’m glad she did. T [...]

Today I moved houses and left Alex to move in with Randy another Couchsurfing host. His apartment is located downtown only a 15 minutes’ walk away f [...]

As already mentioned in the previous post Orlando and me got on very well and we decided to spend another day together today. I read, that local peopl [...]

Because the weather forecast was showing a possibility of rain I decided to visit the History Museum today. Seems like the bad weather came in the rig [...]

[...] bicycles the hotel offered and had a loop around the zoo first. There I could find a lot of food stalls, but as I wasn’t hungry at all I decided to skip food and cycle further into town to the [...]

[...] why its called the Green Lake? Girl teaching a boy how to skip the rope. I passed a few food stalls and decided to try something that looked a bit like bread. I saw a few people lining up [...]

[...] traditional Chinese buildings, the little stalls selling crafts and of course the hundreds of food stalls. We passed a little square and you know what? Yes, people were dancing again. hehe We then [...]

[...] friends and have dinner there. Yay, perfect spot for me! Sun and Moon Pagodas I passed a few food stalls and decided to have some dinner. I had lamb skewers and vegetables, which were really nice. I [...]

Day five of my Beijing experience took me to the Lama Temple, which is only two stations by Metro away from where my friend lives. So I was glad to ge [...]

As already mentioned in the previous post I decided to do only one more touristy thing in Beijing and picked the Summer Palace for it. The Summer Pal [...]

Yesterday was October, 31st- means? Yes, Halloween. I’m not a huge fan of Halloween and only started to celebrate it in 2011, when I moved to London [...]

[...] Kong. Huangguoshu waterfalls To keep it short; a breakdown of the schedule looks like this: Beijing day 1-8 Xi’an day 9-11 Chengdu day 12-14 Anshun/Waterfalls day 15 Guilin day 16 - 17 Yangshuo day [...]

Today Motoi showed me around his area a bit. He lives really close to Harajuku station, which is the center of Japanese youth culture and fashion. It [...]

Because it was supposed to rain today (which in fact it did not) I decided to go and visit the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It displays models and life-sized rec [...]

Odaiba (お台場?) is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. It was initially built fo [...]

Sorry guys for my lack of posts up here. Same than in Hong Kong I also had company in Japan that kept me busy. Kind of by coincidence I met Brent a g [...]