I want to get my teeth cleaned and this requires a visit to the Stomatological Hospital on my road (because I don’t want to pay large dental bills at a foreign hospital). The first thing they need to do even before I can make an appointment is to have a blood test. I can’t see… Read More »
The children in the lane have developed a habit of knocking on my door every day in the summer holidays asking if I want to come out to play. This week I decided to hunt around for the paints and brushes and papers I’d got somewhere in the cupboard. As I was rifling through the… Read More »
I needed some new clothes for a job in the UK for four weeks and I couldn’t put I off any longer. I put on my hat, sun block and sun glasses and took the metro to Nanpu Bridge and to the Sputh Bund fabric market. I walked in the searing heat for 10 minutes… Read More »
They say Yunnan is springtime all year round and certainly when I arrived for my second trip to Dali I was met, on leaving the plane, by a cool breeze and a huge sense of relief. Shanghai is hot and sticky throughout the summer and to be honest, even though it’s a magnificent city it’s… Read More »
I decided to spend my Sunday afternoon by taking a ride down to the river and take a ferry over to Pudong and cycle along the river on the far side. However, I got to The Cool Docks, where I planned to have a coffee and get the ferry, to find The Cool Docks closed… Read More »