China Scam Count: Grifters 3, Us 4
Please don’t get me wrong. I love China. But, over the last couple of weeks, it’s really felt as though China’s not loving me back....
Please don’t get me wrong. I love China. But, over the last couple of weeks, it’s really felt as though China’s not loving me back....
Before we came to China, I thought we had bathroom chops enough to cope with anything the world had to offer. And then… Well, then...
I watch in mounting horror as Martin heads off into the mountains, leaving our tent flaccid on the ground, and Z endeavours to start a...
Lined up as if for battle, on soil that still covers 8000 or so of their comrades, the Terracotta Warriors, like Angkor Wat, Uluru and...
One of Zās signal complaints ā his desire for a skyline safely sated by China ā over almost two years in the tropics has been...
China’s cities are big, fast, buzzing, crowded. Wide, choked highways slice through the maze of malls and alleys with brutal efficiency, girdle the city’s heart...
Chengdu is proud of its pandas. Extremely proud. Abstract pandas stand tall in the main square, opposite a gargantuan Chairman Mao and a stone’s throw...
by Theodora · Published November 3, 2011 · Last modified September 10, 2016
I wasn’t optimistic about celebrating Halloween in China. Not least because my Halloween track record has been pretty damn abysmal over most of my son’s...
Z jumps from stone to stone across the waterfall which tumbles in a rocky stream across the cliff-edge path and a mile or so down...
Trekking the world’s deepest gorge in mid-October, pushing two miles above sea level, you don’t expect to see wildflowers. But in Tiger Leaping Gorge, in...