I love going to Shanghai and am quite happy to go once a week for work. If I have to stay overnight I usually stay on Jiaozhou lu which is close to the Jing’an Temple on line 2. It’s handy and I usually meet up with my friend Jude Shao for breakfast or lunch. Turning… Read More »
The South East Unviersity is a well respected university in Nanjing – one of the better ones. Every Saturday afternoon and Sunday I go there to work for the British Council. Recently I was surprised to see a huge banner advertising a talk on Novel Sensorless PM Brushless Drives by professor Z. Q. Zhu from… Read More »
I was really looking forward to getting back to Nanjing after 8 weeks being depressed in the UK… so much bad news and miserable people – was desperate to get back to happiness in China. Yes, I know there is bad news here too but it’s sometimes good not to hear bad news everywhere you… Read More »
I bought the Sunday Telegraph and almost immediately regretted saving 20p – it isn’t half as good as the Sunday Times. After spending a few hours reading the paper and Polly scurrying around the house cleaning around me we decided to go to Llyn Mawr for a walk and a picnic. John soon came back… Read More »
Frank, Julia and I decided that after our big lunch we should get some exercise so we headed out of the back door and straight up onto Bamford Edge in the Peak District (Bamford). The sun came out and we were soon shedding clothes. Walking along the edge we could see for miles along Hope… Read More »
It was my day off and I had already visiting Wells and Glastonbury so today I thought I would venture further afield and go to Bristol. I found a cafe at the dockside, sat outdoors and ordered my salmon from the menu. When the bill came I asked them to take off the “optional 10%… Read More »