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Xiamen December 6, 2005
Xiamen is one of those places that have nothing to do but where at the end you find yourself always and you never know why. There's nothing to see and even less to do, but the fact that you move because the plane is cheap or because you have to change bus or one of those futile usual reasons that bring you astray in short notice to the syntax but in the end we pass again (December 2005, Tripluca begins with rhymes, historical moment).
I had to start SuperTransiberiana and a flight Bkk (yet? Bkk Bangkok is!) Xiamen coast about thirty-forty euros so go there.
The arrival time, rediscover the legendary Alfonso (anything with a name like that .. but you know that in Poland the name of Alfonso and protector of whores?) And here are 5 days past.
The mystery of the trading organization (Report.. Sorry, previous blog) is thankfully solved: invitation to dinner by his friend Mr. Black, the same the other times, where the bride embroidered and the closest thing to that ideal wife 've ever seen: Kitchen God, always smiling, does not break the balls and you take photos in the park by her boyfriend in the midst of flowers with background of pagoda.
Women who read, I do not want evil, I have two mitigating factors:
- Alfonso gave me a can of beer Fujian Sedrine and I'm here that I drink it on an empty stomach (note: they are pre-Eastern Europe for which I have a sensitive soul with alcohol)
- Every time a woman comes into my life, manages to amaze me with the incredible number of tricks to complicate a day that God gave us all her perfect balance.
(ok, you're probably thinking the same thing for men so we are even).

About women. My personal masseuse, that I have ever seen, proved to be a woman of loose morals.
Do you think that not only call me shameless, but all the rooms in succession!
I discovered his betrayal because at some point in the evening I heard the phone ringing, I answered, she said, "Hey, Ni Hao" I "Xie Xie, bu yao," in short, the usual ritual, and just put the phone down, a time second and a half, played in the next room, then immediately in the other and so on.
I did not cry just because he called me first.
Note CSI: surely called from the hotel because he would never have time to redial and call the other rooms so quickly. Internal collaboration.

Chinese Scene:
- Women take baby in her arms, set codpiece, boy pissing in the gutter. Saw at least five times, in short, a habit. Nice and simple.

Today Alfonso me another appearance in Hotel, gives me a range of sweet biscuits and beer and tells me that when I go YangZohu (above Shanghai) there is an empty house for me. I need to call the sister who gives me the keys and I can be there.
Initially I think I say that the next time I come back we can go there and tell you so when ever you, then I understand better and am surprised.
Think that now I'm going since July (the Filipino woman by the name) in Shanghai who asked me to stay free in the room last year. What happens? Playland? But it was Perth?

Ok, after hearing this and tell me if the life of the traveler is not strange
- Initial design: go by train to Wuyi Shan, the mountains between here and Shanghai. Cost about 15 euros per berth.
- Arriving from Bangkok and I have no clothes except for a sweater. It's cold in the mountains Executioner.
- I go around Xiamen to buy something heavy enough to cope with the Siberian winter
- Xiamen is subtropical and found nothing
- Before returning to the hotel I see an office of Xiamen Airlines, and curiosity within. A ticket to Shanghai costs 40 euros.
- The day after (today) are aeorporto ready to sail for Shanghai.

Therefore SuperTransiberiana start with two flights.

(A hole in the ice because it is in these places that you can enter the "social fabric" of a country. You know a Alfonso and here in the middle of China's true)

Pictures of Xiamen

Was it, Friday is the party? Today is already Sunday night. Apart from the usual work in the room without a window but hails decent, I dedicated myself to visit the famous island of Gulangyu, one of the usual "must". Ok, the fact I must continue with my life.
Today I saw Alfonso, the guy who had helped me last time with the Internet and invited to eat in the house of his friend.
We shot two-hour walk around the city. Has neither eaten nor drank anything. Usual talk of old friends and return to hotel.
About me shows two containers of Ulong tea (not green, not black) the more expensive varieties.
Fortunately this time I had something for him and gave him a series of Thai snacks.
Do not take it as kindly, the presents here are like pistol shots, if you take too much you die, that you have to reciprocate or six out of the game. Although we often do not know to be in a game. Asia.

Two episodes of yesterday:
1) Pass near the bus stop and saw a car that stops. Reduction of a kind style LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) and a guy in handcuffs. The square before the bill of schedules, it immortalized in a digital photo (he started posing with coopearazione) and take him away.

2) I'm waiting for the bus. A shady character tells me something, I glimpse a laptop in her bag. He says a price that could be 3000 or 30,000 RMB (300 Euro or 3000) and beckons me to go a little further than me shows it.
- "Bu Yao" (not want), and I go to my IBM.

Treat the series finale of "oddities Chinese." Tomorrow Alfonso does not work and has every day off. Wife and parents.
- "Let's have fun all day long" (probably to walk), "I'll come pick you up at 11".
I have to work and tell him if he can move to 12.
- "Ok, no problem."
Before parting, I say again:
- "Ok, then at 11"
- "Better if you come at 12, ok?"
- "Ok, ok, at 11:30 okay?"
Accept and stand there wondering if there is a reason behind this negotiation timetable.

There. After nearly six months of relative stability 'in Bangkok are back in a travel case. Two / three months that will take me from here (Xiamen) in Martellago / Peel 'overland from China, Mongolia, Russia and Eastern Europe.
A soothsayer Burmese with almost all the contributions paid told me not to take the train in 2006 and I tempted fate in this way.
As Hemingway said, * "all journeys begin beautiful evil" and this begins just enough sfigatello.
(* Note: it is' true that he said so)
Let me explain: just to prove that the established 'fucked up tends to travelers in Bangkok, I burned a bad credit card PINs because' encrypted with the infallible system TripManuale. If we add that another has expired, so here I find myself alone with PostePay and Amex, few to address the wolves of the steppe.
Today arrive in China with AirAsia flight at 45 Euro and the airport of Xiamen supermodern any ATM (ATM), I bestow due.
Everyone starts in Chinese, then switch to Chinese / English and then return to China, why you're there to push buttons without knowing what you're doing.
Then take a taxi which would cost me 2 / 3 Euro, counting picking up the trusty China Construction Bank near the hotel. In my pocket I have the business card of the hotel which are in place.
Actually, no, where's' over? I had it 3 minutes ago! I also showed the passport control chick azz ... .. ok, I have a map and more 'or less the way I remember.
I get in the taxi and tell him imperiously: "here".
She looks a bit 'hesitant and says the classic:
- "[感叹]多么的"
- Co PA (go) "I say
Obviously the path indicated is not 'one and I realize I do not know how neanchedire "right" "left" (try "Fini" and "Prodi", but does not go) but then I find myself better or worse and 30 RMB (3 million) later we Hotel.
Go down and tell him to wait.
Within the hotel, ask if they have a room, I shoot the usual price, I throw down invicta backpack and go out.
I tell the taxi driver to wait and I zompetto around the banks on the night of Xiamen. As step two, nothing. I take a taxi and go all'Infallibile last time that fails.
Then back to hotel and try to pay in dollari.Il meter and 'to 40, about $ 5, offer him $ 5 or 5 euros and he accepts them both.
I pull out a calculator to recepscionste and try to make him understand what you're asking too much.
But the meter and 'already' at 45, he says. Then I give him $ 10 and sent him home to his wife to get an extra ration of noodles. Moral: how to make a trip from one to 10 euros 2.
Buy a TripManuale, written by an expert.
The recepscioniste are magnanimous and accept a deposit of 20 euros. They write the serial number of the note on the receipt and they send me to bed.
Wait:
- "Wo yao shan wuang (Internet)"
I spread out the cable magic, login and pass, shower and off to write the report.
No, the lady of massage has not yet named. I have abandoned all.