A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Laozi (老子)
Welcome to Magical World! This site is mainly dedicated to our travels: our one-year trip around the world, but also our 3-months cycling trip through Patagonia and “regular” holiday trips. We hope that through this site, we give you an aperture on our view on the world. You can use the menu on the left to navigate through this web site.
Enjoy exploring! 
Jean-Christophe & Vera
While in China, we talked about “Chinglish”, the Chinese English that sometimes is a little bit hard to understand and can be very funny sometimes. We already published a fine example of English translation “free style” and while going through our pictures recently, we found a few more examples, that we really think deserve to be shown to the world as they are highly intriguing, creative and most of the time hilarious.
Poor Grass! Luckily they have a nice sign to protect them! 
The picture below (sorry for the quality) definitely shows one of the finest examples of Chinglish we encountered, a restaurant named “Hong Kong succeeds the sign powder gruel aristocratic family” at Guilin. We think that even Google would have translated this better!! But then, in China access to Google is forbidden. That maybe explains some things.
No idea what those words all together mean!
And thinking about it, we are actually quite happy that they don’t have any access to translator-services like Google, if not, we would not have been seeing the translation on the following picture, seen on a menu of a restaurant in Chengdu:
Unfortunately they ran out of “Strange Flavor Noodles” so we didn’t get a chance to try them. Too bad!
Vera & Jean-Christophe
This picture was taken in the gardens around the Temple of Heaven in Beijing early in the morning. Beijing is one big mess of cars, people, bikes and the general “Chinese-loudness”. But if you have the courage to get up early enough in the morning and walk through the different gardens scattered over town, you will find many people doing Tai Chi or meditation exercises, alone or in a group. It’s very peaceful to look at and it sure opens up a new vision on Beijing.
The man in the picture had been doing some Tai Chi before and was now resting on this trunk. It seems that he is talking to someone, but he was alone (or at least in our eyes, maybe he saw something we didn’t see).
Vera & Jean-Christophe
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