We spent our final weeks exploring Xiamen after we completed teaching each day. Actually, we felt like natives! We shopped for groceries at Rainbow - grocery stores are built on levels - so the food was on floors 3 and 4! In addition, we could puchase shoes, clothing, housewares on other levels. We brought our clothes to a dry cleaner two blocks from the apartment. There were excellent restaurants within a four block area of the apartment. Of course we could walk through the old city on Zhenhai Lu which is a pedestrian street where cars are not allowed. The streets in this area are sinuous filled with DVD shops, noodle restaurants, and stores. I even spotted a Sephora store - who knew? However, most of the small shops are locally owned and are most interesting.
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| The sidewalk in front of our building |
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| The guys at our favorite restaurant |
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| Old and New China! |
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| A display in the "Old Quarter" |
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| The pedestrian street in the Old Quarter |
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| Refreshments at the Marco Polo hotel |
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The staff at the souvenier shop! |
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| Need I say more? Curtis, me Christine (Regis Jesuit H.S.), Alex |
We did manage to visit a five story Starbucks across from the ferry to Gulang Yu. I don't see the Chinese giving up tea for coffee but the shop was always crowded with Chinese people and their computers!
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