My dad has a book called 1001 Historical Sites That You Must See Before You Die, so I decided to go through the entire book to see how many I can tick off the list of 1001.Here is a list of all the places I have been to that are in the book, and these are all my own photos of these amazing places.Australia – Kakadu National Park, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Botany Bay, MCG, Old Melbourne Gaol, Polly ...
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Our travels took us to The Ancient Water City of Wh Zhen (also known as "The Oriental Venice"). Here we toured a bed museum; a textile museum; a Chinese Whiskey Distillery that included a taste test -- UGH!!; and then took a boat tour on a water taxi (Chinese gondola). out next adventure took us to a resort town outside of Hunagzhou where Chairman Mao Tse Tung had a lakeside villa and spent much ...
The Beijing Airport is HUGE and the Terminal 3 was built just for the Olympic Games. They size and scale of everything is incredible. We checked in as a group and headed to security. We did not have to remove our shoes but we did have to remove everything from our pockets (including non-metal objects) and pass through metal detectors and "wands" while our bags passed through x-ray. To get to our ...
We drove to the Olympic Village to see The Water Cube (swimming and diving) and The Bird's Nest (opening and closing ceremonies as well as track and field events). these iconic buildings are right next to each other and are even more impressive in person. We were able to go inside both of them and we certainly spent more time inside The Water Cube taking many pictures of the diving facility. Jan,...
Sorry for the delay getting blog posts up. Apparently, the Chinese Internet does not allow direct access to blog website as a way to control what may be posted. Anyway -- we will do our best to update through back channels.We visited the wonderful Temple of Heaven in Beijing. This place is THREE times bigger than The Forbidden City and here is where you can see hundreds o f people doing Tai Chi ...
The Great Wall should be called the INCREDIBLE WALL. I never dreamed I would ever make it to this place but today I spent two hours here -- walking, climbing, reflecting,taking it all in -- awe-inspiring. I imagined Genghis Khan and the boys coming over the mountain trying to gain access to China and running into, well, this wall. The Great Wall goes for nearly 3500 miles and you simply cannot ...
Our group has enjoyed some wonderful meals so far on the trip. From Dim Sum to Moslem "Hot Pot" to a wonderful eight course meal hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (of which Yilla Guan is the chairperson of in San Francisco). We have tried to eat everything with chopsticks and have been very "adventuresome"at table. See photos above of taken at our ...
It should be noted that "blogging" while in China is difficult. It appears that the government blocks access to blogs (of any type) for fear of angry political propaganda posts being made. I could not access my blog directly to post these entries or pictures -- rather I have to remotely connect to my PC at the office and then upload that way....
Just outside The Forbidden City is the largest city centre in the world. It is called Tiannaman Square and it is MASSIVE. In the center of the square is the mausoleum that holds the remains of Chairman Mao and at one end is the famous giant poster of the former leader of The People's Republic of China. There are street vendors EVERYWHERE hawking their goods and they do not take "NO" for an answer...
s and was occupied by 24 emperors up until circa 1925 when it was opened to the public. Now millions and millions of people tour this area that takes up 720,000 square meters and it surrounded by a 52...
Jet lag got the best of me so I did not sleep well the first night. Breakfast that next morning was an incredible buffet with more food that any person could even dream of eating. There was not much "American style" breakfast food but as they say: "when in Rome..."After breakfast we headed to the National Aquatic Training Center. This was a special treat for us because it is not open to the ...
Thirteen plus hours on an airplane is rather difficult. After you have been flying for what feels likes DAYS, the TV monitors tell you that there are only 5.5 hours remaining!! The temperature outside the plane is -65 degrees and you are 40,000 up in the air somewhere above Siberia!We landed at Beijing International Airport -- Terminal 3 -- which was built just for the 2008 Olympic Games and it ...
Our group met at San Francisco Airport; checked in ; went through security and then headed to the international gate where we waited for our13 hour flight on a large China Air 747. The picture above shows the group near the check-in gate. Left to Right: Yilla Guan (our hostess from Allied International Resources); Jan Rude (President of Duraflex International); Kathy and Doug Bowman (Duraflex ...
After a week in China, the Australian Diving team was off to Delhi for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The Games Village was good, however many parts weren't quite finished. We were in building 20, on the penthouse level! Our four bedroom apartment had all seven diving girls and I roomed with Anabelle.The diving pool was good, nice a bright with quite good springboards and platform. This was our ...
September 24thThe back is still very sore which is so frustrating. I had another cortisone injection today guided with a CT scan, so hopefully the injection hit the perfect spot and will keep me relatively pain free for the Commonwealth Games. I have been doing more and more at training but I still haven't done quite a few of my dives, which again is really frustrating.More exciting news is that ...
After Perth I was heading off to Madrid to compete at the Spanish Grand Prix event. Other team members included: Anabelle, Olivia, Rachel, Jaele, Ethan, Kate, Hui and Jinlan. We found out on the plane trip over that Spain had won the World Cup, which was really exciting as everyone was in a good mood.The pool here is unique as it has a glass dome over the diving pool, which can make diving ...
On the 8th I had 3m, there were 6 girls invited to compete in this event. We had preliminaries and finals, do 5 dives each time, however the scores for all ten dives count towards the end result. After preliminaries I was in 2nd place with a score of 338.85. I was very happy with my finals, scoring 70 points on each dive for a new PB score of 365.20! My total score for prelims and finals was ...
On the 27th of May the Australian team departed for China for the Diving World Cup. I will be competing in the Women's 3m Synchronised with Sharleen. The 2010 World Cup was held at Changzhou, China. Changzhou is known as the ‘city of dragons’, it has a population of 3.6 million. Changzhou is located right on the Yangtze River, halfway between Shanghai and Nanjing. There are 140 divers competing...
On the 25th of April I was off to Montreal for the Canada Cup. This will be my fifth time to Montreal and fourth time competing in the Canada Cup. Competition was fierce this year with lots of teams using this event as final selection and preparation for World Cup in China in June. Countries competing included: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iran,...