China: the land of rules
China is a land that is obsessed with rules. Perhaps it stems from its communist roots. Perhaps rule-making is just something to occupy its overactive bureaucracy.
Month: June 2017
Travelling China in 14 eventful steps
Travelling China as a foreigner is about embracing the craziness. My overnight train journey from Xi’An to Chengdu is a template for a fun evening.
Tianjin: a very dull city
You’ve probably never heard of Tianjin. And that’s probably for the best because it must be one of the world’s most boring cities.
Great Camping on a Great Wall
Apparently, it’s illegal to camp on the Great Wall. So you definitely shouldn’t do it. But if you did, read on to see how much fun you would have.
AFL: Asian Rules Football?
When I moved to China, I thought I’d be adopting some bizarre culturally-appropriate sport – dragon-boat racing perhaps. As it happens, AFL is alive and well in the distant corners of our region.
The road to Heaven Lake
So there we were: late afternoon, sitting at a desolate checkpoint somewhere in the far-flung Chinese province of Xinjiang. A few stray dogs and some confused Chinese policemen kept us company. How did we get into this mess? And where was that damn lake?
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