Chengdu, Sechuan, China. October, 2015

[asterisktom]

Chengdu, Sechuan, China. October, 2015

The lights of Downtown Chengdu. We always felt safe walking around at night. And there is always something to see, to hear, and to experience. So many people everywhere. There is even a word for th…

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I really should have uploaded accounts of our five years in China earlier than this. Part of the problem is the tremendous opportunities we have had to travel since we left China in 2017. Only some of those destinations made it into this blog. Well, better late than never.

This entry will be on our time in Chengdu and for the next one I plan to write about our side trips to nearby Dujiangyan and Qingchengshan.
Full article linked above.

 

[Dr. Bob]

Learned to LOVE real Chinese food in our travels. We were in the north but then overflew to Hong Kong (a few months before "return" to China) so missed many regions/foods. Appreciate reading your take on the country

 

[asterisktom]

Learned to LOVE real Chinese food in our travels. We were in the north but then overflew to Hong Kong (a few months before "return" to China) so missed many regions/foods. Appreciate reading your take on the country

Thanks! We really miss Chinese food, especially Sechuan and Dongbei ("northeast"). We spent half a year in Jilin and 4 and a half years in the Dalian area. I also wrote about our first exposure to China in the links below:

THIRTEEN MONTHS IN CHINA

Outside a restaurant, Yanji, Yanbian Autonomous Province [December 2019 Note: This entire entry has been migrated from my other blog. It is an old post (series of posts, actually) from 2012 and 201…

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Random reminiscences of China: Jilin and Kaifaqu

A view from our second apartment. There is always fascinating people-watching, So many experiences we have had from our five years in China. It seems it will still require many more years to unpack…

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