Street food near the subway station near Amy's parents house
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Nanjing Geological Museum
The rock formation is real and I thought they might have knocked it off from Northern Ireland's famous Giant's Causeway that we visited last year. But in fact they lifted it from a nearby area. I thought it was a coastal formation, but seems not.
The museum, although small, had one of the best rock and mineral collections I've seen in any western museum.
I broke my wife's tooth on a crab
Being the soft westerner I am, and my wife a robust Chinese, I asked her if she'd crack open my piece of crab leg with her teeth. This was at our banquet the other day, see previous post.
there was no cracking tool and Chinese can doing anything eating wise with their teeth and mouths.
So she promptly bit the leg open and I enjoyed the tasty crab meat inside.
Then she complained that she had broken get front tooth on the crab.
Don't ask me why you'd use your front teeth?!? Anyway, seems it was a bad tooth anyway, but may as well blame your husband.
She's out right now at a specialist to see if it will be capped. Will probably be a lot cheaper here. Maybe $500 AU, instead of $2k back home??!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Two airliners 'within six seconds of impact' over Hong Kong
oh great. the 2 airlines we are arriving to, and departing from Hong Kong nearly crashed into each other. Worried not....
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Two airliners 'within six seconds of impact' over Hong Kong
September 27, 2011 - 4:50PM
Two Hong Kong-bound flights carrying more than 600 people narrowly missed each other over the Asian city, officials said on Tuesday.
A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 arriving from New York and a Dragonair Airbus A330 from Taiwan were both told to hold off landing due to bad weather on September 18 but strayed into each other's path.
Airline officials said they were one nautical mile (two kilometres) apart at the same altitude southwest of Hong Kong airport when the traffic collision avoidance system warning sounded.
The Dragonair pilot put his aircraft, carrying 284 passengers and 12 crew, into an immediate climb while the Cathay flight, with 299 passengers and 18 crew on board, descended to avoid a collision.
According to Hong Kong's former civil aviation chief the two planes came within six seconds of impact, based on their distance and normal aircraft speed.
"The chance of a crash is absolutely high. The passengers really came back from hell," Albert Lam told The Standard newspaper.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/two-airliners-within-six-seconds-of-impact-over-hong-kong-20110927-1kv4w.html#ixzz1Z9HTzmtp
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Two airliners 'within six seconds of impact' over Hong Kong
September 27, 2011 - 4:50PM
Two Hong Kong-bound flights carrying more than 600 people narrowly missed each other over the Asian city, officials said on Tuesday.
A Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 arriving from New York and a Dragonair Airbus A330 from Taiwan were both told to hold off landing due to bad weather on September 18 but strayed into each other's path.
Airline officials said they were one nautical mile (two kilometres) apart at the same altitude southwest of Hong Kong airport when the traffic collision avoidance system warning sounded.
The Dragonair pilot put his aircraft, carrying 284 passengers and 12 crew, into an immediate climb while the Cathay flight, with 299 passengers and 18 crew on board, descended to avoid a collision.
According to Hong Kong's former civil aviation chief the two planes came within six seconds of impact, based on their distance and normal aircraft speed.
"The chance of a crash is absolutely high. The passengers really came back from hell," Albert Lam told The Standard newspaper.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/two-airliners-within-six-seconds-of-impact-over-hong-kong-20110927-1kv4w.html#ixzz1Z9HTzmtp
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