The people you meet

The thing that put me off staying in the Higherland Inn on the mountain above Dali was an Australian guy I met there. Everyone else there was nice enough but this guy was different. He seemed okay at first but when everyone else had headed down the mountain it was just the two of us.
We [...]

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Dawdling in Dali

After all that travelling I was quite happy to stay and chill out in Dali for a while and it’s a good place to do it too. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting when I put Dali on my list of possible destinations but it’s a nice place.It’s an old city that’s preserved a [...]

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Travelling

The first of my big journeys across China began when I travelled fromYangshuo to Dali, it took a while to say the least. My first objective was to get to the north train station in Guilin. I thought it would be easy and even though the girl in my hotel had given a note [...]

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Dragon’s Backbone

One thing I’ve learnt from watching Chinese television is that the 18th August is considered an auspicious day, due to all the lucky number 8s, so who would have known that I was born on such a day, though after knowing me for so long you’ve probably already worked out that I was something special, [...]

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King of the Chopsticks

Now that I’ve been in the realm of Chinese food for over 3 weeks now my chopstick skills have been put severely to the test and while the first few days were a bit tricky, each time I got a set of chopsticks it took me a few minutes to work out how to use [...]

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Yangshuo

A few years ago I saw a film called Vertical Ray of the Sun and as a result of the beautiful scenery it had I ended on a trip to Vietnam, drawn by the magic of Halong Bay. There’s just something about regions with limestone karst and water that I love, so I was looking [...]

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Yangshuo

A few years ago I saw a film called Vertical Ray of the Sun and as a result of the beautiful scenery it had I ended on a trip to Vietnam, drawn by the magic of Halong Bay. There’s just something about regions with limestone karst and water that I love, so I was looking [...]

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The girl with the pink umbrella

It was one of those spy-novel assignations, you will travel to Guangzhou train station, there you will meet a girl with a pink umbrella, you will then cross to the station on the other side of town where you will board a train heading west, don’t let yourself be seen!
And coming down the stairs of [...]

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The girl with the pink umbrella

It was one of those spy-novel assignations, you will travel to Guangzhou train station, there you will meet a girl with a pink umbrella, you will then cross to the station on the other side of town where you will board a train heading west, don’t let yourself be seen!
And coming down the stairs of [...]

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Food – part 2

Since you’ve a good idea of what I didn’t eat, what exactly did I eat?
Well quite a lot really, I thought I would lose weight on this due to my fussy eating but it’s not looking very likely at the moment!
The food in the Philippines is all about rice, rice for breakfast lunch and dinner, [...]

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