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', ....
Countdown to deportation
12 September 2012
Time to go home, nearly. My flight is at 1945 and I have to check out at 1000. Nothing to do then except wander the city endlessly. Of course beca....
Still walking
11 September 2012
Last night in Shanghai, this time tomorrow I will be on the plane. So what to do except go on a giant walk? I discovered that Chongning road wich ....