I don’t often go to the park on a week day but the opportunity presented itself and I had had a huge lunch with my Chinese mother and father and needed a walk. As usual there were a lot of people in the park and I spent a lot of time watching a group of… Read More »
Sports Day is a funny day – funny and fun. The trouble is that because we don’t have any sports facilities at the school we have to rent the running track at the Sports University nearby and often, the first time a student has run such a long distance or done any jumping or throwing… Read More »
It was a bad idea to go across the river to Pudong on National Holiday but I had thought it would be nice to walk along the river on such a sunny day. That was my error – thinking that it would be a pleasant stroll instead of trying to move through a scrum of… Read More »
The Art District had alluded me for years but I had a spare day and it was sunny so I got the metro up there and with the help of my trusty iPhone maps and the hindrance of my inbuilt sense of direction I ended up in a semi-industrial. The empty buildings, construction workers huts… Read More »
There was a large gathering on the junction of Fuxing Lu and Jiashan Lu and strong police presence. Some men were shouting and a woman was screaming as the police were loading large wooden structures on the back of a truck. I went closer and saw passers-by with their phones out videoing the scene. As… Read More »