I'd love to go. My responsibilities here mean it's unlikely to happen, but I do like to look at the brochures.
Travelsphere, for instance, have a 15-day escorted holiday to China from £2149. It looks great: Beijing, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City, the Divine Road. On Day 5 you go to Xian, where you...
...hang on, look at this!
DAY 5 XIAN
Fly to Xian, once the capital of China. You will be transferred to Han Tombs before moving on to your hotel for some time at leisure.
A Han Tomb in the Luoyang Ancient Tombs Museum.
Good grief. I've heard of someone going to their long rest, but that's a heck of a long way to go to get it.
Word To Use Today: tomb. This word comes from the Old French tombe and before that from the Latin tumba, burial mound, and is related to the Latin tumē
That is a bit ambiguous, isn't it? A very long way away. You could of course take A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA. Another old song from my youth....
ReplyDeleteDoes the song say how long a slow boat to China takes? Because I'm afraid that whenever I'm on a big boat I spend all my time wandering around trying to find a way out.
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