The PLAN!!!
So here we are, 180 countries down and just 20 to go – it’s mad to think that I only left Shanghai just over two weeks ago, and in that…
Day 646: Slumdong Millionaire
08.10.10: After a good couple of hours kip, I was roused by Thro on his way out to work. I started uploading my epic Korea blog now that I could…
Day 645: Charlie Don’t CouchSurf
07.10.10: Arrived Saigon at about 9am and scooted over to District 1 to meet up with me auld mucka Stan, here in South East Asia on holiday with his soon-to-be…
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…