I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

A amateur traveler episode 614. Today the amateur traveler talks about museums and food and temples

Spectacular Mountains and German colonialization, and beer as we go to Chingdao, China.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Good news at the end of

the show about next year's trip to Africa, but for now let's talk about Chingdao China.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Joseph Wiener from North Carolina

who's come to talk to us about Chingdao China.

Joseph, welcome back to the show.

Thank you, and I say welcome back.

He has been on the show.

It has been a while.

Episode 216, we did an episode on Malawi, but this time we're talking about China.

So what's your connection to Chingdao?

The connection is, this has been business travel, for the business I'm in I had the opportunity

to spend three two-week trips inching down and of course as a business traveler you only get the weekends traveling around, but certainly the nights, restaurants, and where to stay.

Well, it depends how you do it. I had a trip to Shanghai to visit eBay when I was working with them as a vendor for them and they

kept wanting us to come over because we were launching Chinese discussion boards and I kept

saying that's a waste of time and they no no we had to be

there we worked for an hour yeah a two day three day business trip and the rest of the

time we spent doing tourism stuff, but that's not usually.

No, it's not usual, but it is fortunate when that happens, for sure.

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