After visiting Xiahe and its monasteries, Chi and I got a bus to a village called Langmusi. It was a long journey but as we got closer, the hills and grasslands started appearing. Tibetan prayer flags formed huge teepees along the roads and on the hills bringing a riot of colour to the green and… Read More »
It was half way between Langmusi and Chengdu… well it was at least on the way to Chengdu where I needed to be, and I had seen pictures of the place and so I thought I’d take the 6 hour bus to Jiuzhaigou. I booked the Tibetan Barley Inn which was fine. After coming down… Read More »
I was a bit skint so no big holiday for me this summer. I looked at a map and decided that Gansu and Sichuan provinces looked interesting. So I got a cheap flight to Lanzhou and managed to avoid an overnight there by rushing down to the south bus station and hopping on the 1:30pm… Read More »
I am fed up of all my friends being away for my holiday as its always during holiday tie. It seems everyone has birthday parties except me. So I took drastic action and decided to have a birthday party when the weather was nice and when everyone was around. The South Bund was chosen as… Read More »
There are so many interesting jobs open to foreigners in China such as acting, modelling and being a fake business executive for a company. Recently I have done another typical foreigner job – the voice-over artist. Firstly I had to send the studio a voice sample. For this, I went into a soundproof room in… Read More »
Who would have thought that there was a place in Shanghai which was green, peaceful and clean(ish). On the South Bund there is plenty of room to walk, throw a risbee, fly a kite and pitch a tent. On a warm spring day, there are fewer nicer places to hang out. Apart from the massive… Read More »
It’s been many years since anyone knocled on my door and asked me to come out to play. In fact, livng in a remote house down a lane in the middle of nowhere, friends had to make a big effort in order to get to my childhood home, so callers were rare. But here in… Read More »
It sounded like a great idea – go camping on a farm on an island in the Yantze River. It sounded like it was going to be a peaceful and restful experience. Nobody told me that the campsite was under the flight path of Pudong International Airport, and that planes flew overhead every 90 seconds… Read More »
The West Bund is not a place I have spent much time in but went I took a shared bike from the metro I was pleasantly surprised at how peaceful and clean it is down there. There is an area of West Bund which is home to a variety of art galleries. When I was… Read More »
I didn’t need kitchen supplies but it was nice sunny spring day and I wanted to stretch my legs so I went up to the part of the city where you can pick up anything from a coffee machine to a rattan basket, delicate porcelain tea services to earthenware jugs. The firrst thing I noticed… Read More »