China
中国, political hegemony, 3,000 years of history, dynasties, wars, ethnic groups, dialects, rice, wheat, poems, art, medicine, mountains, rivers.
It can be tough to get around China if you don’t speak the language, but I do, so these posts may be more useful than you think!
Slowing Down in West Lake: A Day Trip from Shanghai to Hangzhou
I wake up before the city, as I often do in…
A day trip to Cheung Chau, Hong Kong
Cheung Chau is nostalgia cranked up to 11. The shops –…
Time Travelling in Xitang Water Town, Zhejiang
My phone alarm rings at 5.30am. Instantly I am awake, drawn…
Visiting Xianju, Home of the Immortals (or: The Cake is Not a Lie)
Our ragtag group straggles behind the tour leader as we ascend…
