We have emerged from the greyness of a Nanjing winter into the sunlit balmy days of spring and all the promises that brings. Today I decided to get the bus over to Xuanwu Lake because I had heard there was a pizza festival there and by 2pm I was hungry and lookig for lunch. A… Read More »
Nobody told me about the food in Wuhan otherwise I would have come earlier. What a fantastic place is Hubu Xiang – full of stalls selling skewers of meat, seafood, fruit on sticks, fresh juice, frogs, chicken wings (and feet) and all manner of noodles. I had a check online before I set out in… Read More »
I can’t remember the last time I was speechless but today I was stunned into silence by an 87 year old woman I found on the metro system in Nanjing. Picture the scene. I had just had an unsuccessful trip to Wagas to see if I could locate the glasses I lost yesterday and was… Read More »
I have experienced my fair share of thievery since I have been in China, caught one thief in Shanghai and another on the number 65 bus in Nanjing. The ones who relieved me of my purse and my phone managed to escape my attention though. And my three stolen bikes…. well who knows what happened… Read More »