Category archive for ‘Info’ 
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Adding Passport Pages for US Citizens
If you’re like me—an American living in China—chances are you will reach a time when your passport has run out of empty pages. Let’s face it, we are not lucky Canadians who have 48 empty pages at their disposal. When I got my first passport in 2004, it came complete with 14 pages for visas [...]
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KLM does the decent thing
KLM will start direct flights between Amsterdam and Hangzhou from 8th May. These non stop flights between Amsterdam and Hangzhou with KLM are scheduled to depart Amsterdam on the flight number KL881 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays to reach Hangzhou the next day and KLM return flight number KL882 will take off from Hangzhou on [...]
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Longjing New Tea 1Y per Leaf
Despite the dustbowl that Hangzhou became on Sunday – something to do with the Gobi desert migrating to Japan – we decided to go for a wander and see of they had started picking the new tea yet… …I couldn’t figure out if they were trying to park, or drive, or just organise an impromptu air horn requiem to google.cn. Whatever it was, it was time to walk, because the cars wouldn’t be going anywhere for a while…
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Battle of review giants – Koubei 口碑网 and Dianping 点评网
A bunch of us have been writing restaurant reviews for quite a while and seeing who gets the most comments. Of course I win!! Not been in too many restaurants recently so I thought I might write about the review websites themselves, comparing the two most famous: 口碑网, Koubei and 大众点评网, Dazhong Dianping here for VH.
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Hangzhou – Bangkok Direct flights start again
Just a quick fyi. Hainan Airlines is this week starting a twice a week direct service to Bangkok, so for those of you who need a quick beach bar fix, you’re back in luck. The scheduled times are a bit awkward, but it certainly beats hanging out in Shenzhen for a day because the flight [...]
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Lonely China Excluded
Dropped into the Hangzhou Foreign Language Bookstore the other day and managed to snap this photo when nobody was looking. Can you see anything missing?
By SWG
It’s a nice shop though. Top floor has a collection of coffee table art books, some mangled by years of people thumbing through them, others wrapped and in perfect nick. Middle [...] -
nciku.com | n词酷
n词酷 is owned by Korean search engine market leader NHN, who, since conquering Korea want to colonise elsewhere. Rather than plowing on into Japan and China with their own brand, they are testing waters with a new product – n词酷. This helps explain the main interface on n词酷 – a search bar.
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Viewhangzhou mobile
Lose that address or phone number? Or just want to have a quick read in the cab? This website automatically detects most mobile browsers and shows you a page like this one. On some phones, even the maps work. Never lost again.
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Hangzhou PSB Visa Application Form Download
I thought I would be ultra prepared before going to the Hangzhou PSB to beg for a new visa, but could find nowhere online to download and fill before I went. It meant that even though I was there very early, the 20 minutes it took me to fill it in meant I lost my way [...]
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Hangzhou Weather
Bookmark this page for Hangzhou Weather – it will update when you load the page
By SWG
