By continuing you agree to eChinacities's Privacy Policy .
Sign up with Google
Sign up with Facebook
Q: So, What Are You All Doing for Chunjie?
Are you escaping? Are you hiding in you flat with ear plugs in? Or are you embracing the chaos and firecrackers and joining in?
I've left it to late to plan anything, so will be doing option number 2, so much TV to catch up on.
I have a nice long holiday- 24th to 11th. But as the wife is Chinese and weve already travelled quite a bit this year, we will be relaxing. A couple days in Hong Kong before all the tourists come, Then a 2 hour drive to her hometown for 3 days... Then lots of Tv and enjoying a hopefully empty Shenzhen & Guangzhou.
A week in the Philippines. I guess I will still be able to hear Mandarin being spoken most of the time while there. Went last Spring Festival also, and was SURROUNDED by Chinese, even in the more remote hard-to-get places. Still, better than staying in China proper.
DaqingDevil:
I haven't come across a lot of Chinese at all in the Philippines - wherever I've been. Koreans? Yep, truckloads. Bugger-all Chinese.
cooter:
Yeah, I'm most certain to be surrounded this time. Bit the bullet and scheduled a few days in Boracay. Hopefully I won't want to shoot myself after the first 24 hours.
On 27th we will be waking up at around 5am and driving 1200km to Hubei, should take around 10hrs if the roads are as clear as last year, after that we will spend the holiday with her family in the countryside and relax until around the 8th when we will come back ready to start work on the 10th.
stay here, just like last year. its too cold and boring back home at that time.
Back to Australia but via the Philippines where I'll stay for a week. It was only -15C today (did I really just say that?) but the windchill made it feel like -22C and I froze my arse off waiting outside the Entry / Exit Offices to renew my visa. Then today's news headlines at home: hottest year ever recorded in Australia and expected max temperatures around 40C!!! Yay!!!
Another Spring Festival avoided.
Working as usual, the research doesn't stop for holidays. Somebody has to do it.
A few days with the in-laws, and then two weeks on an island, far far away, where it's summer and where there are far more sheep than people.
