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three week trip to china -- ceramics

updated fri 4 may 07

 

Dinah Steveni on thu 3 may 07


Hey ho Fellow Travellers -- meant as hommage to political bent rather than
future plans :) The Enlightened will pick up FT reference.

Is this a reasonable deal? It's covering a lot of interesting territory.
Great opportunities for sketching and wc. What would the tour guides be
like? Do a couple of guides tag-team the entire tour, or do individual
guides split the tour? What does one bring as a petite cadeau? Sorry,
Francophiles, syntax is probably sucking here; (in old Russia before the
oligarchy came into power with Putin, one used to pack several boxes of
ball-point pens; in Rio and other second world catholic countries, and even
first world non-catholic countries, it used to be condoms + pens + little
lined notebooks to give folks who make up the room, or drive the bus, or are
just plain helpful)? Will English skills be fluent?

Such an amazing and extremely seductive itenerary! What's been peoples'
experiences with this sort of travel? This company? What are visa
applications like? Any important shots/jabs (for our colourful Antipodean +
UK chums) to get before leaving? Many thanks for tips and advice. It really
reads like a wonderful journey.

Many thanks for offers of advice and suggestions.

Dinah Steveni
Moutn Vernon, Washington