In which we drink Port, bet on Greyhouds, and I climb a Portuguese fortress in the pouring rain.
Terracotta warriors, biang biang noodles, and other things you can't find in Shanghai Part II
In which we finally see the terracotta warriors and I search in vain for non-squat toilets in Western China.. The first day in Xi’an, I learn three things: When you are on the back seat of a tandem bike on…
Living healthy in China is exceedingly hard
a.k.a. How to survive Shanghai despite your daily diet of gutter oil and smog.
Terracotta warriors, biang biang noodles, and other things you can't find in Shanghai Part I
Parts of western China seem trapped between the ravages of 1970s Russian communism and pre-1920s Chinese imperialism
Feeling all alone, from the other side of the world
This isn’t a post about loneliness. This is a post about the internet. Since about last Wednesday (March 2nd to be exact), we’ve largely had no internet over here in China. The connection has been deteriorating day by day, until…
They were all out of forks at the Versace Mansion.
‘They were all out of forks at the Versace Mansion.’ We had just left the dance floor, which was suspended over the mosaic-ed pool, after nearly two hours dancing (one person had already fallen into an exposed corner of the pool by…