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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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                              • FOXYF
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                                after picking up my wife we went to a Canadian pub and ordered a wasabi burger


                                that's half of it…

                                on the way back home we dicided to take a stroll and took a few pictures ilustration some of the night time attractions.









                                and coming to a full circle please let me conclude with the same view from our balcony only at night time…


                                tomorrow we do something very Cantonese: we will go for Dim Sum at breakfast.

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                                • SeulS
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                                  Beautiful - and I'm not just talking about all the lasses that pop up as I click on your pics…  😉

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                                    Foxy, INCREDIBLE LEG!!! You have really revived this tour. Keep it up sir. I feel like I am traveling with you, and it is great!!! Cheers

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                                    • rocketR
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                                      Foxy, INCREDIBLE LEG!!! You have really revived this tour. Keep it up sir. I feel like I am traveling with you, and it is great!!! Cheers

                                      big +1

                                      rocketrocksrox 🤙🏼🤙🏾

                                      It's all humbug, like everywhere
                                      R.I.P. Geo

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                                      • ChrisC
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                                        Lychee as big as tennis balls? Damn.  I've never seen them bigger than golf balls.

                                        And dim sum for breakfast/brunch is always a good thing.:)

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                                        • jimmyJ
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                                          @Seul:

                                          Beautiful - and I'm not just talking about all the lasses that pop up as I click on your pics…  😉

                                          haha…. yeah that knock me off my feet a bit while i was at work....

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                                          • FOXYF
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                                            @jimmy:

                                            @Seul:

                                            Beautiful - and I'm not just talking about all the lasses that pop up as I click on your pics…  😉

                                            haha…. yeah that knock me off my feet a bit while i was at work....

                                            Sorry about that, but it's one of the few international picture hosting sites which work from China.
                                            And I though they meant something else when I classified my pictures as family safe…

                                            For all others, for good quality and reasonably sized pictures please use the web instead of tabtalk - only downside: currentl, the picture hosting site is running some ads of decently claded pin-ups.

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