Leaving Vienna, the train took me through the sort of landscape that you imagine for Austria – green valleys with flower meadows and picture book houses. All the roads and houses are ordered, tidy, well-maintained and beautiful with the backdrop of high mountains. The train was clean and efficient making a big change from the… Read More »
It had been a long time since I was last in Brasov. I liked it then and I like it now. However I am not sure whether my memory is faulty or whether graffiti is a permanent fixture in these beautiful old towns. It was almost the first thing I noticed when I got to… Read More »
There’s not that much graffiti around but I noticed someone had started tagging the brand new metal roller shutters the government are installing on Fuxing Lu. All the shop fronts along the stretch near Jiashan Lu have been ripped out replaced and the whole place is looking better. The shops which lines the street outside… Read More »
How did someone get permission to paint this piece of street furniture – I am not complaining, it’s great – but I can’t imagine the authorities being very receptive if I asked them if I could paint some grass and clouds on part of the city’s infrastructure. Perhaps it’s the Shanghai Bansky, although I’m not… 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 »