Planning

So I have started planning my next trip to China.  It looks like it is going to be very rushed, and I have left it quite late, so some flights and so on are going to be more expensive than hoped.  But nevertheless, a number of people are expecting me to … See more...

Transport

With only one week until I leave, I have finally got all my transport booked:  four planes and five trains.

I say all, but that’s not quite true I suppose.  This is only the transport between cites, and does not include the leg to Hong Kong, where I will … See more...

Toilets

I don’t remember if I commented before on this topic, and I am sure many others have done so, but I feel I cannot pass by this point without doing so myself.

As a Westerner who thinks the standard of public toilets in the UK is bad (I avoid using … See more...

Epilogue

It’s been twenty months since this holiday.  I had hoped to return to China at least once.  Now we are facing a global pandemic, in lock-down, and it is barely possible to leave home, let alone go to another to country.  So finally I found time to get around to … See more...