photos from qingdao

This is mounted at the entrance of our hotel (well not exactly a hotel as it is only opened to guests invited by the government), very old skool, I'm surprised they haven't taken it down:


Beach on a cold wet day:

View from revolving restaurant:



Old qingdao beer advert - very avant garde:


Funky looking Laoshan:


Laotze - dude who founded taoism, was supposed to have done a david copperfield and passed through this wall:




Sailing regatta and windsurfing events of the 2008 olympics will take place in qingdao, and they've got some flashy wind-powered lights ready for the world to see:


For some reason Godzilla, along with other bandai toys, is featured in the bugs museum inside the qingdao agricultural university: