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Impressions of Guangzhou 2025
Posted on December 4, 2025 Leave a Comment
12 September Surrounded by Chinese people, I am among those of my ilk. I do not detect anywhere a sense of entitlement, instead an overall predisposition towards satisfaction with their lot. Proving again on this longish flight to Guangzhou. I could not be happier flying China Southern, official airline of Southern China, Guangzhou its major […]
China 2025 – April 17
Posted on May 12, 2025 Leave a Comment
Good morning Xiamen. It’s early, very early. Heeding the stern advice of yesterday’s bus driver, we are catching the 4:40am bus to the airport for our 7:15am flight to Changsha. I feel fresh even though I couldn’t have slept for more than three hours. The Goldilocks weather is neither hot nor cold. We reach the […]
China 2025 – April 16
Posted on May 11, 2025 Leave a Comment
Waiting to board my flight, I reflect that six weeks earlier I had never heard of Xiamen Airlines. Or our first destination Xiamen either, a port city on China’s south-eastern coast just across from Taiwan. Friends wondered aloud if we were wise to entrust our lives to a provincial airline. But Xiamen Airlines ticked a […]
Gerry Roberts 
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