{"id":4374,"date":"2016-02-21T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2016-02-21T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:00:50","slug":"the-boardwalk-in-quingdao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/the-boardwalk-in-quingdao\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BOARDWALK IN QUINGDAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day in Qingdao, the tour guide took us to the boardwalk in Quondam. It is where the Olympic torch was passed on when the game were happening in Beijing. All along the boardwalk, there were these vendors selling all kinds of trinkets, such as seashells and jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>#China #Olympics #seaside #boardwalk #tourism \u00a0#peoplewatching<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9803.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4377 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9803.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9803\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9805.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4378 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9805.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9805\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9806.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4379 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9806.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9806\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4381 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9808.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9808\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9809.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4382 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9809.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9809\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9810.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4383 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9810.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9810\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4375 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9789.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9789\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4376 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9798.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9798\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9810.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9811.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4384 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/andreamaicreative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AndreaMai_Quingdao-9811.jpg\" alt=\"AndreaMai_Quingdao-9811\" width=\"1090\" height=\"727\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day in Qingdao, the tour guide took us to the boardwalk in Quondam. It is where the Olympic torch was passed on when the game were happening in Beijing. All along the boardwalk, there were these vendors selling all kinds of trinkets, such as seashells and jewelry. #China #Olympics #seaside #boardwalk #tourism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-china"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8796,"url":"https:\/\/www.andreamaicreative.com\/archive\/angel-at-golden-waterfall-in-iceland-photos-and-evp-september-26-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":4374,"position":0},"title":"ANGELS AT GOLDEN WATERFALL IN ICELAND &#8211; PHOTOS AND EVP September 26, 2019lucas","author":"Andrea Mai","date":"October 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Before my trip to Iceland, I had this feeling that I was going to capture some strange activity on my camera. 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