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I actually made it
I'm in China and I arrived here with no visa and a passport that expires in just under 4 months. It took flying through S.Korea, political connections and two expensive bottles of scotch but I'm now nesting from a beautiful hotel room in Shanghai with a view of the Bund, I'm waiting for the bath to fill and room service to get here and tomorrow I'm off to Hainan island, then Nanjing, then Beijing, then home.
Whew!
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
Re: I actually made it
I agree!
Glad you made it Tofu!
My name is Monkey, Tofu Monkey...
Soryr, it made me laugh. I know I'm a loser!
Enjoy your hotel room and child-free few days!
this!
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What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
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LOL!
Yeah, I'll have no problem getting back out - they put a full on 30 day visa into my passport so it's all good.
It was a total SNAFU when I got to Korea - the trick is that I could only enter China with a reasonably invalid passport and no visa through the one city that my boss has political connections through, and the only international connection that I could get directly through to it was through Seoul, so off I went, not even knowing if I would make it through or not.
Korean Air gave me a hard time and their management got involved, they wouldn't let me check in for the flight because of my passport validity and lack of Chinese visa, I bought an onward ticket direct to Taiwan so I could get around the visa issue (you don't need one to transit through China) but the passport was still holding me up - so they told me to sit and wait and they would try to get through to the airport in China and Air Korea in China to see if it was okay, but they doubted it. So while I sat there, I called our connection.
LOL, about 10 minutes later I rocked back up to the Korean Air manager and asked what was up, she told me that they were trying to get through but the line was busy, etc. I told her don't worry about it, the manager of the airport is going to call her instead. She didn't quite believe me, and I went to sit back down.
5 minutes later she comes running over with 3 other managers, they tell me that the airport and Korean Air in that airport both called her and that they would like to take my bags and help me to board. They are so sorry, but there is no first class area on this plane so they are unable to upgrade me but they have arranged for me to have 3 seats to myself so I am as comfortable as possible, and would I like a lounge pass? LOL!
So I arrive in this city in China and totally remember why I love this place. As soon as I stepped off the plane, even in the airport, you're just hit with a wall of muggy air and the smell and taste of dirt. It's actually kind of refreshing. I made a call to a guy in customs and out came the boss man who sat me at a desk, made fun of my visa pictures with me, lit up a cigarette and we chatted about stuff in Chinese while his staff fell over themselves to arrange my visa. I thanked him, handed him a nice bottle of scotch and off I went to buy and board my next flight.
China is just an awesome, awesome place if you're up for it. Getting out of customs I was stuck, all the exits were chained shut and I had to wander around, wake up a sleeping guard and follow him out a staff exit door in the back. Speeding in a taxi at night through Shanghai for 40 minutes to my hotel we were honked at and passed by a dump truck that had rainbow LED lights hung off the side of it like Christmas lights. The customs area had 3 lines, one labeled Passport Entry, one labeled Staff Entry and one labeled Courteous Passport Renigrrastion. My taxi driver had little to no regard for human life as we sped down the freeway but I didn't care, I even fell asleep a few times and scared the crap out of myself whenever I woke at the speed that we were travelling at, thinking of my children and hoping that Paul will remarry.
We'll see what today brings, but it's nice to be back.
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
Holy Cow tofu! that's amazing that you got 3 seats - you are a super star!
On a pretty packed plane, none the less. I was pretty much in a coma the entire flight because I was so tired so I didn't really enjoy them, but like a selfish ass I was sure to stretch my feet out along them with my back against the window. Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Also, I tried not to take it too personally when my seat mates on the flight to Korea took one look at me when I boarded and put on their SARS masks for the rest of the flight.
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
ROFL, at first I thought it was because I'm fat and then I was like oh wait, they think I'm someone really important.
(I didn't correct them)
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
yea at the end of the day 3 seats is 3 seats - I'd be thrilled & lay down and take a nap - regardless of how full the plane is - you are a VIP anyhow
lol about the SARS masks - you dirty westerner!
Yeah. The really funny part about that is with my scallywag sarcoidies I should have been the one wearing a mask!
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
I skyped with them yesterday, which was nice, but heart wrenching at the same time.
I can't wait to bring them here, they're going to have so much fun.
In the meantime though, I'm aggravated that I can't access my blog from here - I can read it but not write anything but I'll just have to cope with a massage, some great food and some fruity froo-froo drinks on the beach when I get to Hainan tonight.
I miss my husband and kids. Booo.
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
Enjoy!
I'm just about an hour and a half away from you right now! I'm in Suzhou.
I actually had quite the traveling adventure this weekend, too (though not at James Bond as yours). I flew from Ohio to Chicago where I spent 7 hours in the airport because my flight was delayed. Then I flew from Chicago to Hong Kong (15 hours) but since we got in so late I had to spend the night in the airport. Finally 8 am I got to fly to Shanghai and then the drive to Suzhou. It was exhausting!