My Fun Fine Trip (2)

This is the second piece of recording my favorite trip to Europe when I was in Grade 8 which was July, 2005.


Since I was a child, I have heard of the reputations about Venice which was stated to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And it did really was in my perspectives, especially as I steeped on that land.

As you can see on the map of Venice, it is a city of northeast Italy on islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice. From my understanding, it might be easily affected by the rising tides of the ocean, and sometimes the tide would recede as well, because the seawater flowed through almost the whole city. This port has canals instead of streets. Those meanderings of seawater were the origin of the city’s economic income by a variety of ways, for instance, tourism, transportations, and human supplies. In the photo of mine above, I was sitting on a boat hearing the punter singing his traditional songs.

Well, I asked our guide if these buildings were directly standing in the seawater. And the guide told me it was true and the bottoms of those houses were in water so that a lot of their first floors were unable to be efficient. I thought it was such a waste actually. Besides, it also restricted land space and the buildings might be eroded by seawater. Then that would be a potential danger to residence. Additionally, I had heard that there were often floods occurring and influencing the city, citizens. I believe more proposals and programs should be created to prevent damages.

Furthermore, if you take a look at the photo carefully, you could recognize that the buildings on each side of the canal were pretty ancient and delicate. Architecture is my favorite that I expect to carry my palette with me to travel around and draw all the architecture I loved on my paper. Thus I will own a great treasure of pieces.

My Lovely Hometown

This piece is a introduction of my hometown, Jinan, combined photos with my expressions to them.

The time was just in the middle of last summer vacation. To be honest, the summer time in Jinan is a little hard to bear if you are used to live in a city with cool weather. Jinan is an inland city that it rarely receives sea breeze from the ocean like Dalian. As a result, a distinct climate system has been left behind that the four seasons have quite different features of weather and precipitation. During that summer, it was hot and dry, however, there were a few rainfalls occurred which helped to calm the atmosphere and brought moisture in the air.

Jinan is located in the mid-latitude region so the here the air that flows toward each other is forced to rise, creating a low pressure. The precipitation is mostly happening between April and August. Besides, the city is famous for its springs which is a total of 72 springs. They play an important role in the administration of climate and the human supplies.

As you can see in one of my photos, there is an apparent sign of blue colours. It represents the three eyes of Baotu Spring since it is a unique symble of my city. I really appreciate and like it because it builds up a part of the city’s identity. Every time I went there with my friends from other cities, I felt proud to introduce it to them with a story of the attractions and history.

Moreover, the Daming Lake is also a popular place both in the tourist and the film making choices. It maintains the traditional architechture and natural beauty as well.

My Fun Fine Trip to Europe(1)

It is a memery of my favourite trip to Europe during the summer vacation in 2005 when I was in Grade 8.

The photo above shown was at the time I was in Innsbruck, Austria. It was right in the middle summer but the weather there was soft and comfortable instead of being hot or arid. As you can see that the city was sourunded by a range of mountainds. Also, Danube River flowed through this city although it was a bit hard to be recognized in my pohoto. Danube River is the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga). There are abounding number of streams and distributuries from its main flow that runs through many cities around. To be more specific, it flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea. Based on the knowledge I have learned in class, this river can be classified at a mature age due to its well drained meanders which has started to form.

Innsbruck is a city of southwest Austria west-southwest of Salzburg, and it seems to be located right in the valley. Most of the residences are sitting at the foot of the mountains. As I heard from my tour guide, residents of the city depended on the river a lot. The lower reaches of Danube River were the siginificant transportatation paths on water. Whereas, upper reaches of the river were the major origin of the hydroelectric power used to support the city. I really appreciated it since it was great for the environmental protection because less wastes or pollution would be produced and released.

Geography Is Just Around Me~

During the winter vacation, I spent most of the time staying in my hometown, visiting my relatives and old friends. Just before the Lantern Festival's coming, I went to The Thirtieth session of Lantern Festival in Baotu Spring with my parents. It is an old tradition that Chinese people gather together with their families to celebrate this festival every year. We walk along the streets with plentiful lanterns hang around, wathch the Full moon late in the night, and have a special kind of sweet food which could be decribed as glutinous rice balls. There has been quite a while since I visited the Baotu Spring last time.

As I've known, this year's Lantern Festival deviced the sprirt of Transmission, Development and the up coming Sports Competition of all Chinese citizens as a major part of its subject. It is a great association between the humanities and the nature. There were a total of 36 groups of lanterns decorated all around the park. With the lights reflected from the spring water, the whole area was immediately flaring out of the darkness at night.

Furthermore, the reason why thousands of people would like to come and visit Baotu Spring is that it is one of the top hot attractions in my hometown, Jinan Shandong Province. It was gifted a natural landscape, the springs, which has kept gushing from the underground since it stared to re-spout seven years ago.
Baotu Spring contained three holes of spring where water comes out of the ground. During the winter time, I felt that the pure spring water still remained at its temperature due to the flow directly from the underground that it was even warmer than the cold atmosphere in the surroundings. I could see the thin cloud of steam rising from the surface of water.

Under this trip, an evident interaction between the Human geography and the Physical geography was revealed in my daily life.

A Trip to South MountainsO(∩_∩)O~

This is a photo of my best friend, Z. (June/2008, during last summer vacation)

It had been in the late June since I went back home from school. The whole city was right in the mood of a bright summer. My friend, Z, and I left for a trip to South Mountains which was a great summer resort in my hometown, Jinan, Shandong Province.

This range of mountains was about fifteen kilometers away from the urban distinct; so that the temperature around mountains was lower than that in the central city. Especially when Z and I were up on the mountainside, we had to add a piece of jacket on.

The mountain was generally covered by a plenty of trees. Most of them were cypress and pines that it was presenting a scene of temperate forest zone. However, as we climbed toward the hilltop, less and less species appeared compared with those at the foot of the mountain. It can be recognized from the photo above, that half of the soil has exposed and shrubs, bushes were present.

What was more was that, besides the natural beauty there were a couple of recreational facilities set up and some cultural performance hold based on scheduling. This indeed attracted much more people as well as propelled the tourism undoubtedly. In the photo, Z was just playing with the bows and arrows. Actually it was her first time to even touch and try that!