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Yes­ter­day after­noon we went out shop­ping, in the SM-shopping-mall in Xia­men. It’s very nice, although so big, we didn’t even see half of it. A. went to buy a new swim­suit, but there really was too much choice. After try­ing and retry­ing, she found a nice colour­ful one. I found that mobile phones (at least from Nokia) are …

Yes­ter­day I got up pretty early (for me) at 8.30. We were plan­ning to visit he famous island Gulangyu. This island is very famous for it’s west­ern archi­tec­ture and the statue of the Chi­nese national hero Zheng Cheng­gong, who drove the Dutch away from Tai­wan (called For­mosa at that time) We took a bus to the ferry, and …

I’m feel­ing more and more reluc­tant to write, but I fear I would for­get too much if I don’t. This morn­ing I was rudely awak­ened by a phone call from front-desk, telling me it’s break­fast time. To be pre­cise, it was a long mes­sage in Chi­nese, then when I said I don’t under­stand Chi­nese a long silence, and the sin­gle word ‘bleak­fast’. I con­sid­ered this …

This morn­ing I got up at 8:30, to be in time for break­fast. I had a good sleep, even though the bed seems to be made of rock. For a while I con­sid­ered sleep­ing on the floor, since it seemed softer. The pre­vi­ous hotel’s bed was hard, but this one even more. Maybe it’s always like this in China! Get­ting break­fast …

Last night I arrived at Xiamen-airport a lit­tle after 23.00 after a flight of about 2:30 hours. After I was set­tled in the hotel, and had my shower, it was too late to write, and I was too tired, so today I must write twice. Yes­ter­day I woke up around nine, by a call from the front-desk, ask­ing if we would be check­ing out that …

Today I woke up so early again, after just four hours of sleep, at 6.30. Yes­ter­day I couldn’t fall asleep, because I’m still cough­ing. I sus­pect either Beijing’s bad air, or the air-conditioners to be the cause. It’s quite annoy­ing! I will see if it gets bet­ter in Xia­men. Today Xia­men still had heavy rains, because of the typhoon …

Just now the weird­est thing hap­pened to me. I just had a shower and brushed my teeth, and the bath­room mir­ror was still cov­ered with fog, so I couldn’t see a thing. I stepped out the bath­room one step, then real­ized I should do some lotion on my sun-burned neck, so I stepped back. To my amaze­ment the mir­ror was com­pletely clear, …

Another day has passed. The day I showed I’m a brave man — but only barely. We woke up so early, at 6:15, to catch the train in time. First a walk, and then a ride on a very busy sub­way (3 RMB, for as long as you want) When we finally arrived at the sta­tion, we were early enough, …

This morn­ing we were sup­posed to go to a Bud­dhist tem­ple, but I couldn’t get up. When A. called again at 9:30 I still was so tired, so I let her go on her own. In the mean time the cleaner had already knocked on my door four times, and I could still hear her vac­uum some­where, so I hanged out …

I just arrived back in the hotel, and my feet still hurt like crazy! I got my wakeup call at 6:46, and half an hour later we sat at break­fast. I ate some melon, Chi­nese sweet cake, two toasts of bread with jam, some more melon and orange-juice to drink with it. Then quickly off to the …