"Trying desperately not to start this travelogue with a "well...", but all I can think of is this lame sentence. Brightening up the flat here at the moment is a tiny fake Xmas tree. ..."
"I don't know if Vietnam will be as much fun as China in generating memorable English, but we'll soon find out. The enigmatic "To preceding half step, a civilization stride," greete ..."
"It might have been the north of Spain, but then one wouldn't dare write about it because Hemmingway has already done that definitively for us. This was the east of China, awa ..."
"Well ... my "holiday" has finally started in earnest! I am in Jinan staying at Maree's apartment ... and having a great time. On my final day in Yiwu, I was picked up at the hotel ..."
"Later we decided that we did not have time for a night at the hotel so we showered and checked out, my most expensive shower so far. Instead we spent the night on a train to Dezhou ..."
"So this morning I headed to Taian to first try and get a ticket to Xian tonight and then climb the mountain only to find that all tickets were sold out and that if I wanted to get ..."
"Greetings this week! been a good week, had alot of class work to do, but for the weekend we went to Jinan, which is between Beijing and Shanghai. Day 1: we spend most of the day da ..."
"It has been almost a year since I returned from Jinan. I have so many pictures and stories, and for the most part they've been an oral history of my year in zhongguo. Hopefully I'l ..."
Jinan, China
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