Tea In Chengdu
You have to like a city where one of the major tourist attractions is called the “Wuhou Temple”. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province in central China, you’ve probably heard of it because of its’ native pandas. Damn pandas.
Views of Nanjing
It seems that every Chinese city of any size has a hotel or office tower where you can go look out on the expanse of the city. This is Nanjing from the top of one such.
Drunken Chinese Dudes
I stepped into the elevator and realized that I was really tired. It had been a long travel day: a three-hour bus journey, four hours in Lanzhou and then a six-hour train journey from Lanzhou to Zhangye. My eyes closed in a mini-power-nap. The elevator stopped at the third floor and two short, squat, middle-aged Read the Rest…
A Road-Schooling Day
It struck me recently that I’ve said a number of times that road-schooling is hard work but that I’ve never really explained why this is so. It seemed like a description of a typical “school day” would be a good idea to remedy this. The diary below describes a day in Emei Shan, a mountain Read the Rest…
Independent Travel In China
What was I so worried about? Before we came to China I was genuinely concerned about visiting this vast and diverse country. I think the language was my biggest fear. Language and lettering. As a (self-acknowleged) control freak I think I was bothered that I’d potentially be truly lost all the time.
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