Not so cold
10 March 2014
Now I am in Japan. Not only am I in Japan but I am on a fast train travelling from a man made island in the sea that taunts tsunamis typing on my ....
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 ....
Back to the start
8 September 2012
Today was a long boring day getting back to Shanghai. I am now back in the same hotel as 9 days ago. My train wasnt until 2pm, the earliest I coul....
Wet, lost and confused
4 September 2012
Today is the day to move from Nanjing to Hangzhou, about 2 hours by train back through Shanghai. Checking out of my hotel was fun, thank you sir, ....
No train pictures
31 August 2012
Today I moved from Shanghai to Nanjing. Nanjing was the capital most recently until world war 2, the name literally means southern capital. The Ch....
Wuxi, the dusty city
29 August 2012
I must really love the train ticket office. For the 3rd time in two days I went to Shanghai station to line up for a ticket. This time I was headi....
Beijing capital airport
17 November 2011
Apparently its the second largest airport building in the world after Dubai, the 5th largest building in the world overall, the second busiest by ....
Qianmen and the railway museum
16 November 2011
Honestly, I did not plan to go to ANOTHER museum today, I had no idea it existed but happened to stumble onto it. I did intend to go to Qianmen, w....