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 […]
I thought I’d point out to all you pedants out there that my spelling has not taken a sudden turn for the worst, it just that Blogger is actually banned by the China “firewall” therefore I have absolutely no way of checking what I’ve just published. I will therefore try doubly hard to not spell anything wrong. If you email me any mistakes I promise to cut and paste them a hundred thousand times. Thank you for your patience in […]
Mauve sofas, nice one. Trying to look cool and failing. Las Vegas in China?
Even the sign delivery man is cool. I’ve just walked past wearing my cowboy hat. This is the average reaction. Obviously has issues about his height.
Well, we could ask someone else to take out photo, but it’s more fun trying yourself I think. The results tend to be slightly unpredictable though.
Pat hates his camera. Actually I’ll rephrase that, PAT HATES HIS CAMERA. Got the message? Good, because I’ve had almost three months of it. He’s decided to customise it to take out some of his frustration. I’m thinking that giving him my “Leatherman” saw last night was perhaps not the best idea I’ve had.