I took a walk down to the Confucius Temple last night in the hope that the New Year lanterns had been lit. I was there three days ago and they weren’t and I got very cold waiting. After examining 51 students over the past three days in a very warm room in the South East… Read More »
Spring Festival is around the corner and the nation is on the move, going home to see family. Foreigners know better than to try to travel during the 2 week break so we are pretty much all stuck in Nanjing for the duration. The train tickets tickets are only available a number of days before… Read More »
I was looking for a Patron for my South African expedition of 2004 and knew that Pete Postlethwaite lived locally near Church Stretton. I had been a fan of Pete’s since I saw him in Brassed Off in the 1990’s. A more time-worn rugged face you are unlikely to find. He would be ideal as… Read More »
It’s really central and from the main Metro and bus stop in XinJieKou the most direct route to the office is up MingWaLang. It’s great for food because there are stalls right down the road selling all sorts of local dishes, noodles, meat on sticks (not brave enough to try this), rice pudding stuff, dumplings,… Read More »
OK you can see this blog now as it has been published in the Nanjing Expat Magazine … but it’s just not right. What isn’t? The sign on the bin at Carrefour. It says “Keep the stares clean”. What’s wrong with that? Well it should be “stairs” not “stares”. But you can understand the meaning… Read More »