Ocean world where are you?
4 April 2013
Today in Qingming, commonly called tomb sweeping day, a national holiday in China. What this means is that unless you work in a shop, theres no wo....
Swedish horse meatballs
3 April 2013
When I was in Chengdu last week, I tried to make it to the South Railway station and was thwarted by a bridge and construction work. I keep readin....
Bad science
3 April 2013
First up, I headed north, via starbucks for overpriced coffee (but they did understand the concept of non fat milk). This took me to a river, whic....
Barbecue night
2 April 2013
I like Chengdu. Its very relaxing to walk around. A couple of things I forgot from earlier. When checking into a Chinese hotel they always copy th....
Contrasts
2 April 2013
Today I made the journey from Chongqing, back to Chengdu, where I have another week of updating this website twice a day with nonsense. The journe....
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 ....