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Gallery: On the Road

CHINA | Monday, 3 Aug 2009 | Photo Gallery

Day One
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Jain Temple and the Hill Station

INDIA | Thursday, 16 Jul 2009 | Views [789] | Comments [2]

Traveling north by private taxi out of Udaipur to Mount Abu Hill Station, the road traffic changed from honking rickshaws and motorbikes to camels (whuit) and goats (baya).   The farmers wore coils of red cotton in turbans and majestic, upturned moustaches.... Read more >


Blessings in Udaipur

INDIA | Saturday, 11 Jul 2009 | Views [535]

It's all over the front page.   The glass lake Pichola in this splendid city in southern Rajasthan, is desparate for more monsoon.   The mud caked lake bed is currently the stomping ground for a lonely elephant and a short cut to the markets for ... Read more >


Wet and unleashed in Bombay

INDIA | Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009 | Views [779]

The airport exit ended in a crowded horseshoe and pleasant offers of help came from complete strangers.   I saw my old school mate and we hugged, since in the last ten years we have moved so far apart from each other!   Returning to her boyfriend’s ... Read more >


Gallery: Bombay

INDIA | Monday, 6 Jul 2009 | Photo Gallery


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Gallery: Dragon Boat Holiday

CHINA | Sunday, 14 Jun 2009 | Photo Gallery

Fujian Province
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Yangtze Number One

CHINA | Sunday, 14 Jun 2009 | Views [840]

My sister and Mum visited China for the first time in Easter.   They arrived in Beijing and then flew to see me in Guangzhou.   After that, we joined the plush, luxury cruise ship, Yangtze Number One sailing downstream from Chongqing to Yichang.   ... Read more >

Tags: cruising, excursions, river trips


A night at Chengchilou Hakka home

CHINA | Saturday, 30 May 2009 | Views [513]

Along some dark, difficult roads in a stuffy sleeper coach, my colleague "Joules" and I travelled out of Guangdong Province and into Fujian Province.  The temperature was chilly when we arrived in XiaYang, but then it gave us an excuse to talk ... Read more >

Tags: hakka home


Yangshuo is the Dragon's mouth

CHINA | Thursday, 29 Jan 2009 | Views [534]

We took the new highway from Guilin to Yangshou and passed Nine Horse fresco hill.  The road weaves in between the mountains steadily, and you feel the atmosphere immediately - like a journey into the dragon's mouth where the mountains jut upwards ... Read more >


Gallery: Chinese New Year

CHINA | Thursday, 29 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery

Guangzhou and Guangzi Provinces
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Dao - (Spring is arriving)

CHINA | Monday, 26 Jan 2009 | Views [525]

Only married couples can give red envelopes out in the New Year celebrations, so, when we had finished the school term on Friday 23rd February, the Chinese staff held a raffle of window cuttings, mobiles and other paraphanalia to bring prosperity to ... Read more >


Gallery: Northern Ireland

IRELAND | Thursday, 17 May 2007 | Photo Gallery

The Giant's Causeway
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