On the last day of Wei’s trip while we were drinking Champagne, she read from some notes she had prepared. I asked her if it was ok to publish them here on the blog as I thought they were touching. I used the AI Claude 3 Opus to extract the Chinese characters from the hand written notes and then translated it into English. Then ZY checked it and made a few corrections.
Continue reading “Wei’s Notes From Her Visit – 魏的访问笔记”Author: James
Moving Day! – 搬家日!
Well our first part of our Penang trip has come to an end. Today we moved from our apartment in Tanjung Tokong, at the Straits Quay Suites to a place nearer to George Town called Gurney Ville. I was surprised at how much extra stuff we had accumulated in the first five weeks (mostly food and kitchen stuff). Also, it was a work day for PJM so we decided to make the move in a few steps, leaving her computer set up for her work.
好吧,我们槟城之行的第一部分已经结束了。今天,我们从丹绒道光的海峡码头套房公寓搬到了更靠近乔治城的一个名为 Gurney Ville 的地方。令我惊讶的是,在最初的五个星期里,我们积累了多少额外的东西(主要是食物和厨房用品)。此外,今天是 PJM 的工作日,所以我们决定分几步进行搬家,让她今天正常工作。
Continue reading “Moving Day! – 搬家日!”Singapore and Vietnam – 新加坡和越南
We just booked tickets for Singapore and Vietnam! We’ll be in Singapore April 20-23 and then Ho Chi Minh from April 23-28.
我们刚预订了新加坡和越南的机票!我们将在4月20日至23日在新加坡,然后在4月23日至28日前往胡志明市。
My Big Pi Problem – 我的树莓派在哪
Yes, I meant Pi not Pie. Although the thought of Raspberry Pie sounds pretty good right now. But anyway, this post is about a small computer known as a Raspberry Pi.
Continue reading “My Big Pi Problem – 我的树莓派在哪”Getting Ready for Malaysia!
Well after many years of discussing and trying to make it happen, we are finally about to embark on our three month trip to Malaysia! the idea came during Covid as Zhaoyang was working from home as a CPA at a Public Accounting firm and we thought, well you can work from anywhere, let’s go to Asia!
So we started looking for places to go in Asia and settled on Penang, Malaysia due to its proximity to many other parts of Asia, the food culture, the prevalence of English and Chinese. So we began looking seriously at George Town, a former British settlement, in fact the first one in Southeast Asia. The next step in making the trip was to get approval from Zhaoyang’s employer. While they were supportive, there were many hurdles to overcome due to the nature of her work and the need to get specific approvals from the companies she was handling.
Continue reading “Getting Ready for Malaysia!”Food In Mexico
We’ll add the dishes we liked and didn’t like in this summary blog.
Planning for Mexico City
We’re traveling again, yeah! Actually, after Tokyo, Zhaoyang travelled back to her home town in China in August for a brief visit and then we met up in Honolulu for a week. It was actually a working vacation for her since she didn’t want to burn up any more of her PTO 🙂 But regardless, we had a great time and she snorkeled for the first time!
Anyway, we are heading to Mexico City for a week or so. We will leave just after Thanksgiving and return the first Sunday in December. Beyond getting our plane tickets and an apartment, we haven’t done much planning on where or what we will see.
But we’re excited to be traveling agin and this time Zhaoyang will be blogging!
Leaving for Tokyo on Friday!
Getting Excited to Travel Again!
We are leaving in about a week and the pleasures of traveling is starting to kick in. Zhaoyang is finishing up her last week of work at the accounting firm and will be starting a new job after we get back. So along with looking forward to a new continent to discover, she will have a new job as well!
We have been watching Youtube videos to get acquainted with the places we will be visiting, the food we may encounter
Continue reading “Getting Excited to Travel Again!”Leaving tomorrow …
Quick update on our trip. I started having sinus pain near my eye several days ago. Today I got concerned enough to call my doctor. Given that we are traveling tomorrow she got concerned as well and so prescribed a 10 day course of antibiotics. Hopefully that solves the problem. She also said to take Tylenol an hour before landing and taking off since the sinuses could become very painful.
Also today, a wacko judge eliminated the mask mandate with a single order throwing the industry into a scramble. Will be interesting to see who still wears a mask. We will!
Talk to you from Spain!
Getting Ready for the Trip!
Well, we have about a week to go before the trip and we’re definitely getting excited to travel again. We were in Greece last October and enjoyed it so much we thought we had to return. Plus, I had wanted to visit Corfu, but in October the weather was too cold so we decided against it. This trip is all about the Mediterranean and associated seas that are less familiar like the Balearic Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, but for our purposes, we think of it all as the Mediterranean.
Continue reading “Getting Ready for the Trip!”We Got Covid :-(
Well, about two weeks before our trip, we both came down with Covid after going two years without getting it! We were being careful, wearing masks in public etc. but I guess we let our guard down. So since this is our Covid 22 Trip, I should tell you a little about the experience we had having Covid.
Continue reading “We Got Covid :-(“A week to go …
Well we leave in about a week and yesterday I woke up to a message from the Ferry boat operator informing us that they had cancelled our ferry from Santorini to Paros!! Hopefully this isn’t a harbinger of things to come!
I was able to get a refund and rebook on another ferry but at this time of year the ferry schedules are very light or non-existent.
Anyway, perhaps I should tell you about our trips plans! ….
Continue reading “A week to go …”We’re going on a garbage tour!!
At the Spittelau … more later!
Good news and bad …
The good news, we’re in Vienna! Very excited about seeing the city!!
The bad news, it’s pouring rain with thundershowers …
First half summary （前一半小总结）…
中文翻译在里面
We’ve reached the midpoint of our trip and I thought I’d blog a little. We’ve been having a blast sightseeing, eating and people watching. It’s really nice having Zhaoyang blogging for several reasons. Number one, she is way more diligent than me and more importantly it’s a great way to remember all the things we have done. And because she is writing for her family in China and using Chinese, she can write with more feeling (according to her) than she might if writing in English. And because I’m translating for her, with the sometimes unhelpful google, we get to talk about what we did and form a better shared memory of the daily events.
Continue reading “First half summary （前一半小总结）…”A Rainy Day in Berlin （下雨的一天）
Thursday, July 12th
Sorry to those waiting for another awesome collage of pictures and thoughts from Zhaoyang but today in Berlin it rained all day and we stayed home to catch up on things and get some much needed rest (vacation is tough!) Zhaoyang ventured out for a little bit for some shopping and then we both went out with our umbrellas to scourge for some Pork Knuckle; unfortunately we only ended up eating some mediocre Thai food.
We’ve got a full day planned for tomorrow. Going to head over to the Brandenburg gate area … hopefully will take a lot of pictures!
See you tomorrow.
7月12日 星期四
今天算是我俩各自记录的，虽然大意相同，具体细节略有不同 😂 今天柏林下了一天雨，我俩没有出门，正好可以休息一下 （休假旅游不容易啊 😅😅😅）我在民宿附近转了一转，发现这里有好多超市，而且相隔不远，竞争相当激烈啊。 晚餐的时候，雨还在下，但小了很多，我俩本来打算去一家德国菜饭店尝试德国菜，比如猪肘子，德国肠，酸菜什么的，结果最后不幸的是在一家味道很一般泰国菜餐厅解决了晚餐。下雨正好在家计划明天的行程，明天打算买4天的柏林欢迎卡，可以随便坐公共交通。很期待明天看到不同部分的柏林。
布鲁日100年前 – 100 Years ago – “In Bruges”
Today we are visiting Bruges to explore this beautiful town of cobble stone streets and canals lined with medieval architecture – and now, including throngs of tourists. We first went through the Beguinage community, formerly a loosely religious order of women who lived there without taking vows but was originally inhabited by nuns of the Order of St. Benedict dating to the 12th century.
今天我俩去布鲁日，去探索这个有着鹅卵石的街道和依运河而建的中世纪建筑的美丽城市，现在这里充满了游客。我俩先到了贝居安会院， 这个地方最初是一些修女居住的地方，后来变成一些有宗教信仰但是没有宣誓的女人们居住的地方。
Continue reading “布鲁日100年前 – 100 Years ago – “In Bruges””Driving through Cathedrals towns North of Paris
One of my goals on this trip is to recreate some of the paths that my father took on his trip to Europe in 1949. On Thursday we rented a car in Paris and set off on a day long journey that would take us to Soissons, Laon, Peronne, Amiens and Beauvais. I ended up cutting out visits to Coucy-le-Château and Château de Chantilly to save time, but the Cathedrals we saw were all worth it!
