I made my own dinner
27 March 2013
My hotel room has a full kitchen. I celebrated by making my own dinner, more on that later. If they were to remake bladerunner, it could be filme....
The waiting train
27 March 2013
In my previous visits to China, you just turned up to a train station in Shanghai, and bought a ticket for a train that was departing in the next ....
Eastern culture
26 March 2013
Tonight, I headed east, on foot. The east side of the city, and the next 5km further east, are the nicest parts of Chengdu I have seen so far. Nic....
Researching Pandas
26 March 2013
The main tourist feature of Chengdu is pandas. The entire worlds population of wild pandas live within an hour of here. Whenever you see baby pand....
Never so lost
25 March 2013
As the title suggests, I ended up lost, in a construction site, and then eventually unable to get to my destination at all. Similarly to previous ....
The plane
25 March 2013
Today I will address the lack of photo overload from yesterday. My route took me first West, through peoples park, which was great, then South to ....
No dinner
24 March 2013
After my massive lunch involving a bowl of oil laced with chilli, chunks of garlic and sichuan peppercorns, I decided on no dinner. That means I d....
Numbing and spicy
24 March 2013
I awoke to the brilliant pollution filtered sunlight of Chengdu. According to my ipad application todays reading is 157, which is about 'normal', ....
Not enough air
23 March 2013
It surely was an epic journey. First up, after my various delays and plane changes in Adelaide, I had plenty of time in Brisbane, well about 30 mi....