UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 29 Dec 2006 | Views [599]
Back in this beautiful city ... cold out there tho. My overnight train was uneventful, if a little too warm, but a cabin with meals included in the ticket price (yoghurt and bread good, not so keen on miscellaneous pate and salami) and I had nice cabin-... Read more >
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CHINA | Friday, 23 Dec 2005 | Views [1098] | Comments [3]
I've spent the last few days on a bit of an eclectic tour of Beijing owing to extreme coldness - today and yesterday have been marginally warmer, which is great as I've lost my third pair of gloves so far this winter, and my hat also! The Forbidden ... Read more >
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CHINA | Tuesday, 20 Dec 2005 | Views [643]
I have just arrived in Beijing and will go to see the Forbidden City in a moment, but before I do ... Spent yesterday in Xi'an on the 'Eastern day trip' to see the Terracotta Army. It was amazing, so big, and so ancient. The site is enormous, with ... Read more >
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CHINA | Friday, 16 Dec 2005 | Views [783] | Comments [1]
I posted an article yesterday about Jiayuguan which seems to have disappeared ... perhaps it's just this computer, in which case my apologies for repeating myself. Jiayuguan is fairly industrial and your typical Chinese town - white tiled buildings ... Read more >
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