After nearly five years in Nanjing, the time has come to move on to a bigger and better city and which could be bigger and better than Shanghai. My very few boxes have been packed and the courier company is due tomorrow. I am slightly suspicious because it seems too cheap – I will be… Read More »
I was sitting on the number 13 on the way back from the shops and I was careful as always, to make sure nobody was stealing anything off me. The bus stopped and I lept up (lucky enough to get a seat today) and headed for the door. I felt a tugging at the back… Read More »
They’re scrubbing the city clean ready for the Youth Olympic Games in August (‘Share the Games, Share our Dreams‘ being the most sickening and sentimental strap line ever!). There are new shop fronts all over the city, new trees to replace the ancient ones they tore down against the will of the local people, (TaiPing… Read More »
I will miss my office mates when I leave Nanjing at the end of this month for Shanghai – not that I saw them more than about once a month. I only know the names of 4 of them. I took this video one lunchtime when I popped into the office to do some photocopying… Read More »
I was coming back from Shanghai on Tuesday night and fighting the crowds at the Nanjing Railway Station (the old one) and was perplexed to see this metro map on display. At the moment we have two lines – line 1 and line 2. However, recently the shorter branch of line 1 has been terminated… Read More »
With the number of cars on the roads in Nanjing minor bumps and accidents are not an uncommon sight. I don’t like seeing people splattered on the roads – bike/e.bike lying on its side nearby but it’s an unavoidable part of life in Nanjing. Typically when an accident happens on the roads, the drivers will… Read More »