I came out of my community to find Nanchang Lu full of lights, staging, cables, equipment trucks and a fair few young people hanging around. I noticed that several empty shops had been fitted out and their appeared to be an actor with a racing bike in th doorway of the hostoric Art Deco building.… Read More »
I have been to Nanchang before – passed through is on the slow train to Ganzhou and didn’t like what I saw – lots of greyness, dirty streets, rain and low visibility. Mind you, I didn’t actually leave the railway station so my opinion of the place was formed from that limited viewpoint. However, I… Read More »
The cold weather is coming and we’re wrapping up warm against the elemental forces of a Shanghai winter. Everything is slowing down, fewer people out and about in the evening and people scurrying along the streets instead of ambling. It seems that even on Nanchang Lu, somebody is looking after the trees and preparing them… Read More »
In Lithuania soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, queues for food and essential supplies were still common place and it was not unusual for people to join a queue without knowing what was at the end of it. I am reminded of this as I walk home along Nanchang Lu each day. There… Read More »