Inspired by the length of time granted to us for this month's national holiday, Zach and I decided to venture out further. Further into Yantai, that is! (We still are gathering up the courage [and know-how!] to travel outside of our beautiful seaside city.) After a lengthy internet search, "What to do in Yantai," we decided upon the Changyu Wine Cultural Museum. (Changyu is a very famous winery here in China, and was established in 1892!)
Step One--decide where to go--done.
Step Two: figure out how to get there. Okay, we can go by cab...but how to communicate how to get there? This is where the real footwork comes in. In Pinyin, the address is 56 Dama Lu in the Zhifu District. But which "dama"? (In Mandarin, most words have several varients based upon differing "tones" that will change the meaning. For example, if you use an upward tone on "ma," the meaning of "dama" can change to "marijuana.") We then searched an online Chinese/English word dictionary. 5 damas. Next, thanks to Google Maps, we found out what we thought to be the correct Chinese characters for Dama Lu, matched those with the characters in the online dictionary, and carefully wrote down the characters and practiced the correct pronunciation that we might convey our destination to the cab driver. Phew. Step Two...complete. Onward ho!
Step Three: Catch a cab...
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