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 […]
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.