Days 643-644: Back in ‘Nam
05.10.10-06.10.10: I arrived in the Chinese town of Nanning exceptionally early in the morning and looked about for transport to the border. I honestly can’t remember how I got there,…
Day 642: Chinglish For Lovers
04.10.10: And the bus so pulled entered Chinese city Guangzhou and exited the ginger adventurer who you liked. If I have ridden a direct bus to Nanning (my under destination…
Days 640-641: Sino-Sino Relations
02.10.10-03.10.10: In answer to the question I posed at the end of the last blog: VERY EASILY. Yup, just like the globe (thanks to oil companies and climate changer deniers),…
Days 630-639: Shanghaied In Shanghai
Day 630: A Moment of Terror 22.09.10 You know that stomach-dropping moment of terror you have when you realise that you’ve just, like really, really messed up? I had one…
Days 624-629: How Do We Solve A Problem Like Korea?
DAY 624: DISMEMBERMENT 16.09.10: So I disembarked (hilariously described on the ferry’s website as ‘dismemberment’)... ...onto the native soil of country number 169, South Korea – a place at pains…
Day 623: Guten Tag!
15.09.10: So Qingdao , what are you famous for? Ah, you were a German concession town were you? And you’re where the Tsingtao brewery is based? Excellent. I’ll have a pint. What’s that? It’s 50p? I’ll take…
Day 622: The Great Wall
14.09.10: Sometimes I had good days, sometimes I have bad days, sometimes I have days that are madder than Mad Jack McMad of the clan McMad. Today was one of…
Day 621: Innies and Outies
13.09.10: So there’s Inner Mongolia and there’s Outer Mongolia. What’s the difference? I hear you cry… Well, it’s like this, see: half of the historic area of Mongolia is in…
Days 618-620: Weekend at Bare Knees
10.09.10-12.09.10: I can’t tell you how much I’ve missed the sight of legs. Girls legs, to be precise, pins that go all the way up, if you know what I…
Day 617: Raise The Red Lantern
09.09.10: Arriving groggy-eyed in the big Chinese Cheese that is Beijing, I had work to do. First up, I needed to pick my second passport up from Fed-Ex. This may…