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    Iron Heart IH-634S - World Tour 2010 - 2013

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    • Finn666F
      Finn666
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      @monday:

      thank you for the background story & you have done more in your few days then some during their entire leg . . .  just saying  😎

      +1…

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      • FOXYF
        FOXY
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        Drinking/buying tea for the last 2hrs with my good friend and tea dealer Bo





        And his kids are going crazy…

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        • jimmyJ
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          What type of tea did you get?

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          • FOXYF
            FOXY
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            @jimmy:

            What type of tea did you get?

            Details and prices will be posted tonight - so much for now: good tea is just like wine or whiskey (as expensive as well…)!

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            • BeatleB
              Beatle
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              cute kid..

              We can do anything

              http://bybeatle.com

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              • FOXYF
                FOXY
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                Let me give you a brief introduction first…
                This is the house where our appartment is situated


                this is our living room & kitchen


                this is how the day started - we actually live in the city and look down on the Pearl River from our appartment. Most of our expat colleagues live a bit outside of town with their families & kids


                a glance out of the windows facing to the back

                after getting up and seeing my wife off to work I started with taking some day light pictures of the jeans and reviewing the shoes and belts situation…

                these are the shoes & boots I plan to wear over the next couple of weeks


                my Tricker's and Alden's

                my Camper's

                my Viberg's

                and maybe my wife lets me borrow her Viberg engineer boots…

                here are the belts

                I will go through the tees, shirts and jackets tomorrow - the idea is that if you want to see the IH-634S paired with certain items from my wardrobe I would give it consideration.

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                • SeulS
                  Seul
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                  Flat looks nice!.. Lotsa room - lotsa light!..

                  You might, however, consider selling some shoes to me though… I mean: do you really need all those Trickers?..  🙂

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                  • FOXYF
                    FOXY
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                    @Seul:

                    …
                    You might, however, consider selling some shoes to me though... I mean: do you really need all those Trickers?..  🙂

                    actually, it's only 2 pairs and the green pair I have to share with my wife because she keeps borrowing them…

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                    • FOXYF
                      FOXY
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                      Time to pick up my wife for lunch - the driver is waiting (btw: having a driver is totally over reated!)

                      this is where our office is situated

                      and this is where we went for lunch

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                      • FOXYF
                        FOXY
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                        After lunch I tried to get a new mobile phone (contract) since I had to return my business phone





                        things here in China are a bit tricky, nothing works as expected. you can't just go in and buy something. be prepared to entertain a lengthy discussion and an actually overload of paper work when settling the bill.
                        long story short: I will have to come back tomorrow in order to file for an international telephone number (why woud one want to have international calls in China seems to be beyond everyones comprehension) with internet access and data download (for taptalk).

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                        • FOXYF
                          FOXY
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                          next on the to-do-list was going for groceries - most neighbourhoods have these little market areas…















                          the area around Guangzhou is famous for its Lychees - they can be as big as tennis balls and are quiet yummy!

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                          • GilesG
                            Giles
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                            Shoque alert - Shoque alert - Shoque alert

                            Increase, disk space, I/O and CPU urgently  😃 😃 😃

                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                            • FOXYF
                              FOXY
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                              @Giles:

                              Shoque alert - Shoque alert - Shoque alert

                              Increase, disk space, I/O and CPU urgently  😃 😃 😃

                              sorry - we Germans take no prisoners and are not afraid to lose big time…there is more to come!

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                              • SeulS
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                                Man - that food looks so good!.. I wanna dive into those vegetables and fruits!..  ???

                                CHECK PAGE 71 , LADS AND LASSES!..

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                                • FOXYF
                                  FOXY
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                                  next destination: tea market.
                                  calling it a tea market is an understatement of some sort. in the case of Guangzhou it is an entire wholesale district - tea is serious business here in China…




                                  street after street - picking out a trustworthy dealer seems to be a random choice at best…







                                  most wholesale tea dealers will specialize - here in Guangzhou the more popular teas are Chinese green teas and Woolong or Oolong teas, teas that are considered half-fermented and somewhere in between green teas and black teas.

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                                  • GilesG
                                    Giles
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                                    No probs and we can cope…..

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    • FOXYF
                                      FOXY
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                                      @Giles:

                                      No probs and we can cope…..

                                      good - because I will test it!

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                                      • FOXYF
                                        FOXY
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                                        meet Bo and his family, my local tea dealer

                                        buying tea in China is an interesting experience and will follow a certain routine not unlike drinking tea in any of the still exisiting tea houses.
                                        a small porting of the tea will be brewed in a cup - water quality and temperature is key - we will start with cleaning the cups with boiling water.

                                        the actual tea will be brewed next - in our case we start with Tieguanyin (Iron Goddess of Mercy) from Fujian - the current season is the spring harvest which is considered second best after autumn. this has an impact on the prices - they can be high, but not as high as some for autumn teas if the harvest was good.



                                        the first infusion will be used to clean and unravel the intact tea leaves and clean and heat up the drinking/tasting cups again. usually, from the second infusion onwards one starts drinking the tea. with third or fourth infusion you start to get a notion of the specific character of the tea.
                                        a tea dealer will start with lower qualities and will lead you to the more expensive qualities - tasting/buying tea can take quite some time…


                                        prices are quoted in RMB by the Jin (500gr) - we went through 800RMB, 1600RMB, 2200RMB and 2800RMB today - after a good autumn harvest the prices can go up by more than double.
                                        these are melon/pumpkin seeds served as snacks

                                        Tieguanyin is usually kept sealed and in the freezer at the whole sellers


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                                        • SeulS
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                                          Man - I love tea. This whole culture of tea-tasting and all is blowing my mind.

                                          Thank you, FOXY!..

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                                          • FOXYF
                                            FOXY
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                                            next on my list was another famous Oolong tea - Da Hong Pao (Royal Red Robe) from Fujian as well



                                            we tried 600RMB, 2500RMB and a different variety for 1600RMB

                                            Keemun Mao Feng - Qimen - this is a black tea

                                            we tried 1200RMB

                                            Dian Hong - Jin Jin Mei - Red tea

                                            we tried 1200RMB







                                            sometimes I go for dinner with Bo after business, but I was running late and had to pick up my wife this time.

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