Beihai

[lionheart]

A three hour train ride by poxy cattle train (No, not the luxurious lovely bullet train, this was fecking dire, complete with peasants clearing their noses on the floor of the train and mothers changing nappys, Ok it only cost £3 but I'd of gladly paid £4 for the bullet trian).....(and another thing, the toilet was a steel lined hole in the floor.....you could see the tracks as you slashed, apparently this serves two purposes, it stops them having to empty crap tanks and keeps people off the tracks, which if you think about it is a fair comment, someones turd hitting you in the face at 70mph is a strong deterrent).

Anyway where was I , oh yea Beihai, its the Chinese version of the seaside, kind of a chinky Margate, only with less chavs and more class....

A couple of things Ive noticed as different, they sell candy floss here....but the machines are manually driven so the poor sod has to pedal like bollox to spin the sugar and they have hoopla for the kids but the targets/prizes are baby rabbits and budgies stuffed into unfeasibly small cages.

Beihai is right on the Vietnamese border so a lot of smuggled stuff comes across, Ive arranged with a local
rickshaw driver to take me to a smuggle shop tomorrow, may prove interesting.

The seafood here is fecking fecking amazing, I had 2 dinners tonite, one at 6 and one at 10, I love oysters and the way they bbq them at the side of the road fresh with garlic and ginger is amazing and this is the only place I know where I can order a dozen and have change from £4.

I saw what I thought were dried claws from some creature, about 12 inches long, turns out they were dried Walrus dicks ready to be added to rice wine for that special extra something.

Gonna stay here a few days, would be a shame not to with my 2 room hotel suite with free internet, led tele etc (though had to go and buy an air freshner as it smells of damp carpet.....but there are no carpets!) only costing £8 a night....

Laterz Dudez..:flirty:

[Penfold]

Any pics? Not of the walrus penis in particular but whatever floats your boat.

There does seem to be a genitalia-based theme to your travels ........ Gecko testicle wine and walrus penis ....... I'm not commenting on the fact that you seem to steering towards male body parts....

enjoying the journal - you should really be blogging this to a wider audience

[lionheart]

Not really thought of blogging this, the internet connection has been really poor through most of my travels and a hell of a lot is not accessable (read banned), I'll just let the lucky few share the wisdom of my massive knob knowledge...... anyway it's only you lot that understand my sense of humour.

I have several hundred pics and hours of vid to entertain (bore) you with at the lan but the connection is too poor to upload at the moment.
This is my sixth visit to China and I always find stuff thats so different as to be shocking, the culture is so alien to us, I love it, even the weird food, it seems to me the only animals to enjoy a full life here are flies, (and then I've seen them set in plastic as keyrings) all other living things are destined for food and every bit of them.

Anyway, theres some interesting looking liquor in the supermarket that needs drinking (theres a pic of a bear on the label so god knows what it is), laterz.

[Blunt]

LH, I saw this and thought of you

[lionheart]

Having seen first hand the standard of hygiene out there, I think there is a distinct possibility that I have indeed tried this...

[TE_owner]

that reminds me of An Idiot Abroad with Karl Pilkington when he goes to China, comedy genius that dude, even if Ricky Gervais is a bit of a knob.