If you stand still quietly for long enough you can still hear the sound of the hooves of a thousand cattle and being coaxed through the concrete maze to their end. Trendy design companies flourish where once termination was the name of the game. The smell of blood has been replaced by freshly ground coffee… Read More »
I was sure the lump on my eyelid had been growing bigger recently, and not wanting to scare people on the bus, thought it best to seek out professional advice. I had decided against the SOS Clinic because of its £140 consultancy fee. Global Doctor, at £80, was a bit cheaper but still too expensive.… Read More »
I love the craziness of Nanjing, old people doing their early morning exercises – slapping trees, hitting themselves with sticks, slapping their legs, rubbing their calves across a metal bar, shouting to warm up their voices, clapping, hitting their head with their fists and my favourite… my absolute favourite is walking backwards. Nobody believes me… Read More »
My new friend invited me to dine with her on Wedesday and I quickly accepted. She explained we couldn’t go to her house because it was full of dietary supplements so we were going to go to her former student’s house at Nanjing University. We met at Gulou metro station and even though I offered… Read More »
I had a few things I needed to send to Europe and several of them were breakable so I stopped on my way to the Post Office and bought a local newspaper for 10p so that I could use it to wrap the items up. I got to the Post Ofice, purchased a strong box… Read More »
We have emerged from the greyness of a Nanjing winter into the sunlit balmy days of spring and all the promises that brings. Today I decided to get the bus over to Xuanwu Lake because I had heard there was a pizza festival there and by 2pm I was hungry and lookig for lunch. A… Read More »
Nobody told me about the food in Wuhan otherwise I would have come earlier. What a fantastic place is Hubu Xiang – full of stalls selling skewers of meat, seafood, fruit on sticks, fresh juice, frogs, chicken wings (and feet) and all manner of noodles. I had a check online before I set out in… Read More »
I can’t remember the last time I was speechless but today I was stunned into silence by an 87 year old woman I found on the metro system in Nanjing. Picture the scene. I had just had an unsuccessful trip to Wagas to see if I could locate the glasses I lost yesterday and was… Read More »
I have experienced my fair share of thievery since I have been in China, caught one thief in Shanghai and another on the number 65 bus in Nanjing. The ones who relieved me of my purse and my phone managed to escape my attention though. And my three stolen bikes…. well who knows what happened… Read More »
Surely Guangzhou Lu has to be the most disgusting, dirty, obstacle strewn, periless street in Nanjing. For a very long time there was building work at the Children’s Hospital there and when it was finished I hoped that the result would be fewer puddles of children’s piss to watch out for on the pavement. Between… Read More »