Trip: learning tai chi in Chen Jia Gou
There are [48] stories from my trip: learning tai chi in Chen Jia Gou
CHINA | Friday, 27 Jan 2012 | Views [350]
Well, Happy New Year from Chen Jia Gou! This coming year is the Year of the Dragon,
which I can’t help but feel is a fortuitous year to be here. I haven’t looked at the Chinese symbolism
surrounding Dragons yet, but seeing as to how my new power ... Read more >
CHINA | Friday, 27 Jan 2012 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Monday, 23 Jan 2012 | Views [544]
This really did happen the on Wednesday night. In hindsight it’s funny. At the time it was anything but.
My room has an en-suite bathroom with a hot water tank so
you can have a hot shower which is very welcome after a long, cold day. Rural ... Read more >
CHINA | Monday, 23 Jan 2012 | Views [495]
Holidays never really cross my mind when I’m planning to go
somewhere. I didn’t realise it would be
Durga Puja until I got to Kolkatta, and I ran away from Diwali by spending it
in a tiny village in Sikkim where kids let off firecrackers until about ... Read more >
CHINA | Saturday, 21 Jan 2012 | Photo Gallery
Cold, cold and colder
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CHINA | Friday, 13 Jan 2012 | Views [912] | Comments [1]
I like the kitchen.
Everyone eats together and the cook is very friendly. His life’s mission seems to be to feed
people as much as he can in one sitting.
The food is basic but fine; breakfast is ‘zhou’ which is a very watery
kind of porridge ... Read more >
CHINA | Sunday, 8 Jan 2012 | Views [943]
So, here I am! Chen Zhao Sen’s tai chi school in Chen Jia Gou. I’ve been here for almost two weeks now, and feel settled in the sense that it seems like I’ve been here for ages, Hong Kong seems forever ago, but at the same time I’m still trying ... Read more >
CHINA | Monday, 26 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Sunday, 25 Dec 2011 | Views [474]
If anyone had asked me at any point over the last two years and nine months what I really wanted, the only answer I could have given, apart from for Tottenham to win the league (or anything at all!), was to come back to China, go to the Chen Village ... Read more >
CHINA | Friday, 23 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery
Trains, Trams and other Asian vehicles...
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CHINA | Friday, 23 Dec 2011 | Views [480]
This blog hasn't been a daily occurrence, as you may have noticed, but sitting here in the deathly silence of this dorm I thought I'd write some more about Hong Kong, especially as Amy and Dave are thinking of going there for a holiday at Easter and ... Read more >
CHINA | Wednesday, 21 Dec 2011 | Views [466]
So now I'm in mainland China! It's very different from Hong Kong; different clothes, hair, cigarettes..... Succumbed to temptation today and bought a pre-Chen Village packet of fags. I'd been eyeing them up all the time I was in Hong Kong and today ... Read more >
HONG KONG | Thursday, 15 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Thursday, 15 Dec 2011 | Views [512] | Comments [1]
Warning! This has turned into a bit of a rant, and it might not be of much interest to anyone who hasn't ever taught English! I've been in Hong Kong for about 12 days (it feels more like 12 months) and I've been attempting to learn some Mandarin ... Read more >
INDIA | Tuesday, 13 Dec 2011 | Views [296]
Culture shock is a strange thing. You think you've been in Asia long enough to be past being very wide-eyed and then you take a couple of flights and you're in a totally different world. In seven hours I travelled from the country ranked 155th ... Read more >
INDIA | Saturday, 3 Dec 2011 | Views [427] | Comments [1]
Although I spent much longer in Dhaka than I would normally spend in a city, most of that time was in the comparitively upmarket areas, and until Friday I hadn't really got around to exploring anywhere else in the city. Friday was the last chance to ... Read more >
BANGLADESH | Saturday, 3 Dec 2011 | Views [585] | Comments [2]
The thing that Bangladesh has that a lot of more visited countries have lost is the attitude of the local people towards foreigners. Because so few people come here, you really are an oddity. Anyone who has travelled in Asia knows what it's like to ... Read more >
BANGLADESH | Saturday, 3 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery
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BANGLADESH | Thursday, 1 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery
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BANGLADESH | Sunday, 27 Nov 2011 | Views [466] | Comments [1]
I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to write anything about Bangladesh, I've been here for two weeks now and have had plently of time to write something, but instead I've left it until 45 minutes before I have to leave for the train station so it's ... Read more >
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