A pagoda.. Still life with plastic drinks bottle.. Carving.. More carving..
Sriding anyone? Hadn’t really considered that…. Watch the small print… Worthy sentiments.. …and world peace! Absolutely
In Xi'an we're staying at the Xiang Zi Men Youth Hostel. As far as I can discern it has just opened. it's so new in fact that they still have the protective plastic coating on the bathroom fittings. They obviously didn't get around to removing it before we checked in. The term 'Youth Hostel' does it no justice whatsoever.I think they should rename it immediately to something more grandiose, 'The Xi'an Gardens' for example. Any Westerner arriving would be non-the-wiser. […]
..and now for a commercial break. Chinese television advertising is quite the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. First of all it's just so literal. There's no degree of subtlety whatsoever. Car insurance would be sold by showing real life car wrecks for example. It's also seems to be full of quite blatant lies. It would appear that the concept of presenting some semblance of reality has yet to arrive here. The Chinese seem to have fallen prey to […]