It’s been too long! Too long since the last update (3 months if you’re counting – of course I’m not), which is part of why I’ve split this one up into three. I mean, if it took me since September to finally get everything ready, I might as well spread…
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…
Quickly Doug, before you forget everything. Write down everything you remember from Stockholm. That’s what I’ve been telling myself for a few weeks now. In this new life in China, everything goes by at such a pace that it’s easy to just leave a memory behind. Not that that’s not…
It never quite goes away. It doesn’t matter how much you travel, the feeling that something’s going to go wrong, or that you’ve forgotten something really important, sticks with you till the end. This time, for me, it was my luggage. I was sure it was going to be discovered…
This particular blog follows on from part one, in that it was written in the same rambling train of thought. If you haven’t delved into that first part of my fascinating story of not quite triumph mixed with possible loss and dismay, you can find it here. Might as well…
Tuesday 09th August 2016 – I’ve broken off onto a new entry, as the last one was getting rather long. That, and it’d gotten a bit bit long since I started writing it. Oops. This one does though, start off from where I left off. In fact, almost exactly. So…
