Trying to organise a trip to China is like nothing else I have ever experienced in all my trips around the world. Yesterday I had a strange experience while trying to phone the Chinese Embassy after wrestling with the voice mail , and "if what want this press 2" I eventually got through to the visa section which said " thank you you are through to the Visa section" then promptly cut me off . MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM now that's what I call customer service . Cant wait until it catches on here . Oh it already has, it's a bit like phoning my bank but at least you do get through to a human, even if they are in Liverpool. There are 8 of us going to China and its always somewhere I have fancied going to ever since some great Aunts and Uncles from New Zealand talked about not being allowed to visit. I did get as far as the top of Thailand on the Golden triangle where you could get a boat to China but time did not allow it, to say nothing of the lack of a visa.
I've been reading up about it and all the changes that are going on within the country especially as they prepare for the Olympics.Booking all the flights and hotels online have been very frustrating its not unusual to spend 4 hours trying to navigate your way around a website only to be told there is no availability. The websites are very slow and your computer becomes slower afterwards but such is life. Tomorrow I'm off to Dublin with all the information for the Visa's to try and go in person to the embassy and see if I live to tell the tale. It's always nice to have a trip to Dublin and I've not been in a while and when that happens you usually have time to see some differences happening.
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