Posted by Avi Telyas on Jan 3, 2010 in China, travel
No, I didn’t walk to Nanjing, I flew… but it took a while:
Since there aren’t daily flights from Narita (Tokyo) to Nanjing, I had to connect in Shanghai.
Air China service is reasonable, but the meal… less than reasonable:
The connection involved going through immigration, getting my luggage and then take a bus to another terminal (told you it was long). The good part was the small Embraer plane:
Posted by Avi Telyas on Dec 26, 2009 in Uncategorized
Decided to write more about my life in Japan, travel, food, friends; once in a while will continue to write about Technology, but definitely will not be the focus.
I have many things I want to write, but I don’t feel like starting another Blog (too lazy to maintain).
Seems almost impossible, but today I will start my first trip to Mainland China. Have previously been to Hong Kong (twice) and Macao (once), but I am sure this is going to be a different experience.
My trip is to Nanjing (Nankin), in Chinese Characters it is 南京 , which means the southern Capital, which it was in the past. Since there are no daily direct flights to Nanjing, I’d have to connect through Shanghai (on my way) and Beijing (coming back), which makes the trip very long.
My twitter account (@telyas) is the best way to follow my updates and quick pictures I am taking with the blackberry, but I will do my best to update this Blog as well.
Bing.com added new map services, which has great “3D” photos (not just the flat satellite map). Finding it very useful, as sometimes Google’s Street View is too restrictive as taken from the street level.
As an example, see below Shibuya Crossings in Tokyo:
Yet another awful commercial from UQ WiMAX has arrived. This time, they outdid themselves, by using a cat which has a very successful Youtube channel.
See below UQ WiMAX Commercial, asking if the cat will manage to go into the box, then asking if your Laptop has WiMAX. (Did I mention this commercial is BAD?)