The Wiggen's Travels
Our travels around the world.

Posts Tagged ‘china

China food

August 12, 2008

Overall I really enjoyed the food I ate there. It was a mix of western food, resturants we simply walked into and mcdonalds once a day (luckily the ice cream counts) The most interesting thing was the prices. We could not figure them out. Beer was a dollar at the games but 5 at the […]

China

August 12, 2008

The overall experience in china was really impressive. The people were really excited to be hosting the games. Little kids LOVED to run by and say Hi while giggeling while could almost always get a smile from security guards as well. Yes there were army guys every 100 ft, but somehow they seem a little […]

Great Wall

August 12, 2008

Yea I am simply uploading some pics right now. I will write more about the china experience (which was great) later. Here are some shots from the great wall. It’s really amazing.

The great firewall of china

August 12, 2008

So it seems you are not allowed to blog from china. It simply would not connect. Interestingly you can get to facebook and twitter so IMHO their strategies do not make 100% sense. To make matters even better, wordpress app deleted my offline posts when it updated. So much for blogging from the Olympic games.