Writes of Passage

They love picnic but always get into the wrong spot … My kids loved their books. Wiki stats that it has grown to over 300 titles.

2016.05.20 @ Potomac River

Europe: Bourse vaste old stock exchange in Paris. Since 2000 known as Euronext Paris. It has restaurants on site, such as the Spoon.

BnF

127 km/ 79 miles north of Ji’Nan (wiki and zh wiki), Shandong, China.

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• blue skies, sunrise /sunset
• the wineries
• the arches of Chinatown
• my faved tea bottle
• camera cannons & stoned
• Sit next to me? Trained in China
• Interesting license plates, cute signs & streets, boats
• A few links & walks
• Parks, the highways;
• a few restaurants in NY and Long Island
• The New England
• casa

After moving to Hong Kong, I’ve been traveling back to China often. But to Europe was in 1982 when I secured a visa to United Kingdom, that started my Europe travel, then Japan in 1983, then US. More pix on FB.

My first ‘passport’ was Document of Identity for Visa Purposes, short for DI, a travel document for people who lived in Hong Kong for less than seven years. .

Some of my visas:

1. 1982, UK: issued on July 8, 1982 (use by Oct 8, 1982). Upon arrival on Sept 23, the immigration officer at Gatwick granted me two months stay. I left London on Nov 20 to Milan, took train to Venice, Florence and down to Rome
2. 1982, Italy: issued in Hong Kong on 16 Nov 1982 (use by Nov 30, 1982). Nov 20-27
3. 1982, Sri Lanka: issued on Aug 27, 1982.
4. 1982, Greece: Oct 29, 1982. Nov 27 -28
5. 1983, Benelux – Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg; 5/30 in Hong Kong
6. 1983, Spain (5/31 and 12/23; 90 days)
7. 1984, Egype fm Frankfurt on 4/24; DM 53
8. 1984, Denmark fm Frankfurt on 1/16; DM 16.5
9. 1986, USA in HK on 5/15 good til 8/15; July 11
10. 1989, Italy; May 10
11. 1991, Austria in NY on 9/20
12. 1991, Germany 9/18
13. 2000, UK, 11/16/2000, (till 5/16/2001) on my new Chinese passport.  This would be the last one.  At entrance, the immigration officer stopped me because my green card has expired.  No really expire but each card has a 10 years of life before a new card needed to be issued and it cost money.  So that prompt me to apply for  the US citizenship.
14. 2003, China, 2003
15. 2009, Nicaragua; US$5
16. 2010, China, US$140, multiple, 6 months; Taiwan US$110
17. 2011.06.13, $140 China
18. 2014.05.16, two years $140/$175