a2b - Accor Beijing, from Lh@sa onwards

There are no more entries on the blog but there are six postings on the Express Bank, shown below, most recent first.

明早到西宁（6月9日）
发布时间: 2008-07-09 22:30 发布者: 雅京行 点击 15 评论 0
正坐车往西宁，昨天到的格尔木，大概明天早上到，准备从西宁开始认真骑了，现在在车上，明天找网吧选些照片发上来——阳健颖…
萨迦古镇（6月9日）
发布时间: 2008-07-09 21:41 发布者: 雅京行 点击 12 评论 0
今天已到萨迦古镇，到拉萨后可能坐火车赶上戴维汇合——刘佳…
今天到沱沱河（7月6日）
发布时间: 2008-07-07 20:54 发布者: 雅京行 点击 23 评论 0
今天到沱沱河，骑了93公里，感觉身体不行了。。。都骑的很累，明天准备骑150公里…
明早到唐古拉山口 [...]

a2b - Accor Beijing, a partial recap plus the latest news

Quite a substantial change has occurred on the Accor Beijing website. A number of postings have appeared on the Forum which were not visible before; posting dates span from mid-June to the present– there has been a persistent page not available message for some time – and the weblog has come back to life [...]

a2b - Accor Beijing, into the Himalayas

Just two postings on the Express Bank of the Accor Beijing website; I guess this is because internet access is not available and signals from portable devices will be weak or non-existent. The first post announces the group’s entry into Tib@t and the second one gives an indication of their progress.

Date of posting [...]

a2b - Accor Beijing, into Nepal

There are two entries from the Express Bank of the AB website copied below with Google translations added -
Date of posting 2008-06-12 02:11

我们明天去奇旺国家动物公园，三天后去博克拉，再三天回加都，之后骑中尼公路回国。

Tomorrow we go to the Royal Chitwan National Park, three days later to Pokhara and then another three days for riding across Nepal to the Tib@t border.

Date of posting 2008-06-13 21:45

2008.6.12 [...]

a2b – Accor Beijing into India, and out again

The blog on the Accor Beijing website has been suspended. Whether this is permanent or a temporary measure isn’t known but as the last entries made related to the early part of the journey in Iran, as far back as Gurbulak [a few thousand kms away], maybe it isn’t important. Possibly the riders simply haven’t [...]

A step nearer . .

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.

Ireland Joins The Anti-China Rage

On QQ news is an item of complaint about a bus stop advertisement, found in Ireland. The ad is for a detergent and the slogan makes use of the expression ‘all the tea in China’ – a common idiomatic expression meaning ‘much’ or ‘a lot’ - and reads, “Gets Out Stains Made By [...]

Repetitive Responses Repel Repugnent Rebels

How’s this for a bit of frivolity - click here.

Is neutrality all it’s cracked up to be?

I’ve always had an open mind regarding China preferring to not take sides and view what goes on from, what I felt was, a neutral position. The recent events in Tib@t were something of a test to keeping that position as we didn’t know exactly what was happening but my neutrality survived. However, after [...]

The ‘b’-word

The ‘b’-word has been mentioned in the press. Again. At the time of Mr Spielberg’s disengagement with BOCOG there was some talk of boycotting the 2008 Olympics in protest over China’s involvement with Darfur, but it then faded away. Since the recent troubles in Tib@t the topic has been revived and the [...]