lovely tianjin

Had been on a short Work trip to Tianjin in china the 3rd biggest city aparently, not to much on the front of touristy thingy but this aparently changed not to long ago since it is part of the olympic city's.

The best thing of course  in tianjin with out any dought is the food!! how amazing - people life 4 food you can see them sitting all night even in the cold out site and having food on the road side.

Some of it or some people still miss whestern food which is hard to understand especially with the abundance of such a great selection.

there are some great clubs not only at the "bar street" which seamt to be in any city  but too in some selected areas. Night clubs are with great life music most of them at least depending on your tast of course, but it is easy to find some nice hang out easy.

English is spoken a bit amongst the younger peopel Uni students but other then that your left alone and have to fight for it.

cultur street and around the bell tower is nice a bit touristy, sadly lot of the "houtong" had been destroyed to make way for new buildings then again it was close in the city center and sem to be an eye soar..

there is too the old "european style " part of the city.. and the great wall is not to far too, sadly in my 3 visit I saw the loss of some of the nice market close to the "golden Street" which had been replaced due to the olympics comming -- lots of things had changed since lots of new good looking renovation taking place

amongst the river are some nice places to just walk around..there are some good shopping bargains just behind the cultur street to be found a huge area with whole sale markets, then too one can take the train down to tangugg the habour town more shopping and great food

pollution was a bit an issue when I was there - not often I could see blue sky but still a nice city with a town feeling to it.

peopel dance and play cards- table gaimes in the parks just great to see such closeness.

I'll be back ther some time