Saturday, October 4, 2008

Winding Down the Beer Festival

Two days left of the 16 day Qingdao Beer Festival. Then back to normalcy.

Yesterday (Thursday, 4 October), I led a group of expats to a walking tour of the "Old Qingdao City". Only twenty minutes from downtown Qingdao are the Badaguans (octagon/8 street crossing), Zhan Qiao Pier , Taidong mega street shopping area, then finally the Beer Street (where the old Qingdao Brewery used to be). In tow were: Joe and Claudia Bruan (from Wisconsin, Claudia visiting for one week), Josephine and Jack Ng (New Yorker, newly arrived to QD), Oliver Spanh and girlfriend Jessie Dong, Wandy (visiting English teacher - from Beijing), Adelia (my friend, a Qingdao-ren) and me (the tour leader).

It is probably best to narrate the trip by pictures, so here ya' are.