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Forums > Living in Kunming > Offline GPS?

Yeah; you can but the area is not as big as it could be in 6 and it also doesn't stick that well over updates of the OS/Maps software. The offline data disappears every now and then. Also, having to type "OK maps" is just silly.

What's more, you can not have a "My maps" overlay or a measuring tool anymore, and the scale indication disappears after a second. All of which are very unpractical if you're trying to navigate.

So I switched back to 6 today, and I decided that there's really no reason to update to 7 as of now.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Offline GPS?

If you use Maps 6.x or lower, just make the area you intend to visit available for offline use through the menu.

If you have already upgraded to Maps 7, I see no reason not to downgrade to 6 as the older version is way better.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Consider making your own bread, it's fun.

The crust on my baguettes is good. I did indeed fill a tray with water but that seems to block the heat from the bottom a bit, so maybe I'm better off putting a cup inside.

I think the olive oil may also be counterproductive for the yeast rising, but of course it keeps the bread fresh for a longer while.

I also use less yeast in my baguettes and dissolve this yeast in cold (not lukewarm) water. Someone told me the trick for good baguette bread is a very slow rise. So I let it rise for over 4 hours with little yeast dissolved in cold water. Seems to have worked for me.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Consider making your own bread, it's fun.

I just tasted all the bread I made today. While the two baguettes were pretty good, the regular bread quickly lost its crunchy crust and the inside was also a bit chewy.

I'll try letting the baguettes raise longer to make them even more airy and I'll have to read a bit on improving the regular bread. I don't know what's up with that.

I made all of them with the dietary wheat fiber flour as I hadn't found anything else. Maybe that's the problem for the normal bread?

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don't forget that Dulong is a heavily Christian area, AND that drinking there is a serious issue. You can compare it to the droughts and the alcohol bans in both the US and in the Nordic countries in the early 20th century, when drinking had half of the country on its ass. Or Kunming.

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"However, the RMB has, despite dropping recently, grown overall against foreign currency, so the real cost in global terms has risen even further, perhaps 15x and 6x. Yes, there has been inflation, but that happens everywhere and not 15x in 15 years, ie. 100% per year!"

That doesn't sound right. If you're consuming domestically, you can't state that food prices have actually risen a multiple of the actual inflation because of a difference of RMB vs foreign currency. At least that's not a good indication of economic situations.

This only holds true in the eyes of the few who shop in Yunnan using foreign currency (I guess importers are feeling it).

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First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.

When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.

Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.

The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.

In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.

Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.

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Super place. Really cool interior, lots of good beers and drinks, fun toilet inside the telephone booth, and an interesting clientele.

Cons: pretty hard to find, no matching glasses for the imported beers, and home brews need some work.

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Teaching and support lamentable.

Four people signed up for the highest-level class and got a teacher who does all the talking, refers to herself as 老师 and makes classes absolutely uninteresting. As of this moment, only 1 person is still going on a regular basis.

While staff is friendly, they are absolutely incapable to help out with visa matters in an adequate way. Lack of information beforehand, lack of support and lack of information during the visa process meant that I am waiting forever for my residence permit to be processed, without any information about why it's taking so long, why they can't get started ... I'd say this school is a good option if all you wanted is a visa, but they can't even handle this properly.

Anyone giving this school a 5-star rating hasn't been to any decently-run schools in Kunming, such as Keats'. The only redeeming quality is facilities and space, those are indeed excellent.

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Have been studying at Keats for almost four semesters now and I'm very enthusiastic about the quality of the teachers and the commitment of the school's staff.

One point of criticism is that I think they could put in some effort to group people of the same level together, rather than base it on who was together in last semester's class.

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I stayed here in the early days of March 2013. Dave and his wife are swell owners, the staff attentive, the food good, rooms in perfect order, WiFi fast enough... Much like the old hump, the entire place is an excellent place to relax and make friends. And that is what you come to do in Dali, after all. The location is a bit isolated from the old town, but nothing is really far away in Dali. Besides, it makes for a better starting point to walk up Cangshan.