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DAndong is on the border of North Korea so it was interesting to peer over the fence and river to see what it looked like. Dandong Trip Slideshow: John's trip from Anshan, Liaoning, China to Dandong was created by TripAdvisor. See another Dandong slideshow....

Lots of snow today but not so cold, a high of -6c but will be cold tonight. Having some people over for New Years eve, pizza and plonk theme so should be interesting, we shall see. View on ExposureRoom

Christmas Day over and felt a little seedy but anyway, our friend Angela) who owns a bar downtown invited us all down there for drinks. She is a lovely lady, I had her son for classes and he kind of adopted us as family. When my granddaughters came she...

Christmas dinner was a hit with everyone and they did like my trifle very much, even asked for the recipe. There were about 40 people here and our apartment was quite full. I forgot to take may photos due to being kind of busy cooking and having the odd...

The sun is shining bright and we will do last minute things today to be prepared for Christmas Day. Did a bit of shopping, it was cold out, snd got most things but had difficulty finding icing sugar but eventually got some from my friendly baker across...

Christmas time at Kindy is wonderful with all the Christmas trees everywhere. Chinese people like Christmas very much. View on ExposureRoom

Warmer today, it got to -4c and tomorrow is due to be 4c so a warner day again. We had some kids come home to see how we ate, they enjoyed it. Children eating at home

A cool night indeed

I think that young people today are the same everywhere, they get up late and don't eat the most important meal of the day at home but come to work and eat snacks instead. But they are lovely ladies. Snowing today as well. View on ExposureRoom

My walk to work this morning through the snow and in the very brisk weather but I made it. Mei wraps me up very well.