Off Again

I am heading off again tomorrow for part 2 of my travels. Myself and another English teacher will be risking the boat to Yantai in Shandong province. Wonder if the captain is a graduate of Dalian Maritime University!!! Good chance he is! We have a rough plan of taking in such places as Qingdao (home of Tsingtao beer), Nanjing (a lot of history) and Suzhou and maybe Hangzhou (supposed to be beautiful cities)

My only worry is about getting back to Beijing in time for Jan 26th. It's coming up to Chinese New Year and it's really hard to get tickets. We'll be ok if it's possible to book a ticket from city A to city B if you are in city C, but I dunno yet if that's possible in China.