When you’re on the road meetings other travellers rumours abound about the good and bad sights to see. Sometimes you pick up a hot tip about some undiscovered site yet to be picked up by the masses. Thus, we find ourselves on a bus to go and see some secret unpublicised gem of China’s heritage, some sort of large wall. OK. Enough of the bullshit, we’re off to see the ‘Great Wall of China’ or rather one bit of it. […]
..as my Dad used to say. Thinking about it, I’m not sure exactly what that is supposed to mean. Will a potential assailant be scared off by the ludicrousness of your headgear? Or will the bravado you are displaying by wearing a stupid hat mark you out as someone to be reckoned with? Perhaps my Dad knows. Either way I’ve got a fairly daft cowboy hat and I’m very fond of it. Apart from making me look daft and I […]
There’s that bloke again, he seems to be everywhere.. Just after taking this a squadron of soldiers marched out the front doors and ushered us out of the way in comedy fashion. Actually I’m not sure they thought it was very comic but the throngs of people around us did. It turned out that they were doing some changing-the-guard, lowering-the-flag ceremony. Is it me or are those military ceremonies almost terminally boring? I mean, what sort of people actually enjoy […]
A warning to would-be China travellers, don’t order ‘roast duck’ thinking it is ‘crispy duck’ it is NOT the same thing. Not good if your compadre has “Jack Sprat’ like sensibilities when it comes to food. Can you see how shiny it is? That’s GREASE! I’ll stick to the beer..
I think he should try and return it, it’s still under warranty after all.
I think I’m suffering temple fatigue, as an athiest the novelty soon wears a bit thin. At least this one was at the top of a hill so you got a nice view. You’ve got to love the woman in the background.
This is apparently advertising the local police. I’m not sure why the police need a PR job, but hey, there you go. No back garden? No problem, hang your clothes in the street. It’s probably best to not do this with your very expensive Diesel jeans however. Advance strategy for dealing with unsolicited callers at your front door: Make the door knocker so intimidating your dare not use it. Electric bikes of every description abound here. I really want to […]
As we are white most of the time in England we like to get a tan. Change is as good as a rest I suppose. The Chinese like to stay white (think classic porcelain Geisha) It doesn’t seem to stop them sunbathing however, they just seem to go about it in a rather unconventional way.
We had a little trouble when we first arrived in Beijing. Everything started off swimmingly, the rucksacks trundled off the conveyor in express time. I’m never sure whether this is traveller serendipity or baggage handlers stacking the big cases towards the bottom of the pile. Either way it generally seems to work out for us. We piled aboard a bus city bound headed vaguely in the direction of a hostel we had plucked from the lonely planet with the intention […]