Hello! It’s 2020! Which means I definitely have left China now. Presumably. Unless something has gone drastically wrong with my mind…hmm…anyway! As will become apparent in the forthcoming post, I did not write this in 2020. I actually thought about scrapping it and never letting it see the light of…
Bear with me. This is going to take some brain power. Some real racking of the old memory, which is really not my strong point. Why? Well, I’ve left China now, but after living there for knocking on a year and a half, I realise I’ve barely accounted for six…
The trip to Wuyishan took me about 300km to the north west, a decent journey by most standards. To give you an idea of how big China is though, this didn’t even take me out of the province. I was still in Fujian, just about. It didn’t take long to…
This story follows on from part one, obviously. It does say part two in the title. So if you haven’t read part one, you should probably read that first. Or don’t. It’s probably not life or death… A Temple & an Island On the way back from Metro last time…
It’s been a while, and I’m far behind. For some reason, when I’m in one place, it’s harder to see the stories that might be interesting. When I’m talking about where I live, it’s difficult to discern the mundane from the cool. In China it’s no exception. I walk around…
I signed up to the school trip. It was a surprisingly difficult decision. On the one hand I had the opportunity to go to Xi’an – one of the ancient capitals of China – famed around the world for the Terracotta Warriors, a giant army of sculptures buried thousands of…
