Posted on Saturday, 12 July 2008 by 克莱夫
Actually I’m not sure if China is preparing for a sports event, i.e. running around in circles, jumping over obstacles, throwing things, generally fooling around and having a good time, or about to go to war. Reading websites such as the China Daily [CD] and the Shanghai Daily [SD] you might be excused [...]
Filed under: 2008, Beijing, China, Comment-China, Kirgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, games, olympic, security, terrorism | Tagged: air missiles, Anhui, biological attack, chemical attack, knives, Nuclear attack, Qingdao, sniffer dogs | No Comments »
Posted on Saturday, 5 July 2008 by 克莱夫
The PRC government is making an effort to systematically clear out foreigners residing and working in China, particularly those in Beijing. That the clear-out is widespread is not disputed and no one with a non-Chinese skin is safe no matter how long they have lived in China and no matter what they are there [...]
Filed under: 2008, Beijing, China, Comment-China, Xinjiang, games, international, olympic, politics, security, terrorism | Tagged: Al'Qaeda, asylum seekers, clear-out, dissenter, East Turkistan Islamic Movement, ETIM, evangelists, foreign students, Han, harmonious, hi-jacking, insurgent, migrant workers, missionaries, mobilisation, multiple entry, North Korea, petitioner, photo-ops, PLA, PLAN, PRC government, PSB, re-education, round-up, sabotage, single entry, trouble maker, Urumqi, Uygur, visas | 2 Comments »
Posted on Thursday, 3 July 2008 by 克莱夫
Click here to go straight to Joachim Lent’s new geotagged photogallery, with an array of pics which will take you all the way from Olympia to Kashgar.
Filed under: 2008, Asia, Europe, athens to beijing, cycles, riding, travel | Tagged: gallery, geotagged photos, Kashgar, Olympia | No Comments »
Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 by 克莱夫
Many thanks to Beijing Olympics Fan for alerting us to this webpage of wonders on the Mental Floss website.
The sports/activities/antics [delete as required] depicted on this page, each with a demo video clip, beat diving, dressage, and most other Olympic sports, hands down. Shame upon BOCOG for not selecting wife-carrying [if you really think [...]
Filed under: 2008, eccentricity, games, head-bangers, humour, nutcases, olympic, sport | Tagged: lunacy, Ga-Ga, Bossaball, pesaballo, underwater hockey, mountain unicycling, wife-carrying, obscure sports, baseball, hockey, outdoor activities, dodgeball, Extreme Ironing, BOCOG, repetitive, mediocre, outdoor games | No Comments »
Posted on Thursday, 8 May 2008 by 克莱夫
So the Olympic flame has arrived on the top of Mt. Everest/Qomolangma/ Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng/珠穆朗玛峰/jo-mo glang-ma ri/Sagarmatha/सगरमाथा or whatever you want to call it - a mountain by any other name is just as steep.
Here is a page on QQ news, translated by Google-analytics, with a few more photos of the event.
No protests were reported.
Filed under: 2008, China, Tib@t, Xizang, games, olympic | Tagged: सगरमाथा, 珠穆朗玛峰, jo-mo glang-ma ri, Mount Everest, Qomolangma, Sagarmatha, Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng | No Comments »
Posted on Saturday, 12 April 2008 by 克莱夫
Although it is still early days for the A2B tours I couldn’t help make a few comparisons between the two teams. The differences in organisation have already been mentioned but it may be worth going over a few other dissimilarities. The Crotos team contains several riders [possibly all of them] with previous experience of [...]
Filed under: 2008, Athens, Azerbaijan, BaltiCCycle, Beijing, China, Crotos, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, athens to beijing, cycles, cyclist, international, riding, travel | Tagged: itinerary, Kathmandu, Samaxi, Ankara, progress, Lh@sa | 3 Comments »
Posted on Wednesday, 9 April 2008 by 克莱夫
As is often the case, rummaging through snippets of information on the web doesn’t always lead you to the correct conclusion. Earlier this month I thought I had found a website listing the members of the Chinese team from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, it even said as much on the website. [...]
Filed under: 2008, Athens, Beijing, China, Greece, Turkey, athens to beijing, cycles, cyclist, riding | Tagged: Greece, group, Huazhong University, team, mishap, peak, trough, border | No Comments »
Posted on Sunday, 6 April 2008 by 克莱夫
Joachim was born in Finland, to German parents and writes his blog in English [part of that I know to be correct, but some is just guesswork]. He also happens to be the most prolific of all the blog writers on this tour, so we are doubly fortunate in that we have an [...]
Filed under: 2008, Athens, BaltiCCycle, Beijing, Crotos, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, athens to beijing, cycles, cyclist, international, riding, travel | Tagged: Tblisi, vodka | No Comments »
Posted on Thursday, 3 April 2008 by 克莱夫
A few more details of the Sino-Greek cycle tour.
Filed under: 2008, Athens, Beijing, China, Greece, athens to beijing, cycles, cyclist, riding | Tagged: celebration, Huazhong University, team, no support, entrepreneurial, intrepid, determination, persistence, tour | No Comments »
Posted on Wednesday, 2 April 2008 by 克莱夫
Early in March I reported two groups who planned to cycle from Athens to Beijing; in keeping with the Olympic spirit here are a few more details about our intrepid travellers.
These two pictures were taken of the Chinese team while they were in Athens with their volunteer guides. It’s not difficult to pick [...]
Filed under: 2008, Athens, BaltiCCycle, Beijing, China, Crotos, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, athens to beijing, cycles, cyclist, international, olympic, travel | Tagged: celebration, crosscountry, group, health, Huazhong University, international, team, support, no support, epic, olympic spirit, benefits, green, entrepreneurial, intrepid, environment, tour | No Comments »
