I usually take my bike to work as it’s a lot quicker to get around in the city centre. It’s a cheap bike – £20 but fine for what I want and I leave it chained up in the centre and get the metro home. It has been vandalised a bit but still works fine. … Read More »
My old friend Sue came over from Suzhou to see me and in planning our day we had to make sure we were outdoors for the least amount of time. For shoe shopping we decided therefore to go to Fashion Lady which is a huge underground cavern full of small shops. It’s dark and like… Read More »
The cicadas live underground for 17 years and then emerge and fill the air with a deafening sound. Even amongst the busy streets of Nanjing it is sometimes hard to make yourself heard. The cicadas in this clip were singing for a mate at the 1912 area of the city and were perhaps singing extra… Read More »
I am trying not to venture out of the house during the hours of daylight if I can help it. It’s far too hot and sweaty. When I eventually emerge the whole place is dancing. These people are dancing outside the library in the middle of town but everywhere you look in the evening there’s… Read More »
I called at the railway station, an old colonial building like something you imagine from the days of the Indian Raj. I wanted to buy a ticket for the overnight train tomorrow to Singapore. I decided to go as soon as possible to ensure that I had left enough time to queue in the doubtless… Read More »
Hungry again I got the monorail and the underground to have a look around the shopping area to see if there was a nice quiet local café to have a meal. However, there were lots of people shopping in huge gleaming shopping malls selling all the usual labels. There were indeed restaurants there but of… Read More »
I have left The Cameron Highlands behind and got a coach to KL. It took just over 4 hours and was only a quarter full. The scenery was unremarkable – a lot of palm trees and roadside shacks. On arrival at the bus station I decided not to take a taxi and to walk around… Read More »
Decided to go and have a look at the tea plantations today and signed up for a jungle trek. The plantations are extensive and our guide was an ecologist who knew all about tea and told us that, unlike wine grapes, there was only one type of tea plant – Camellia – and that the… Read More »
A lazy day today catching up with some sleep and took route 10 up into the mountains to see what I could see. It’s Ramadam so the restaurants are quiet until later in the day. Remarkably there is a Starbucks here but all other places are local and much busier! I had a lovely plateful… Read More »
I had enough time to go and have a look at the harbour side and I wanted to see Marina Bay Sands Hotel. I got the MRT underground to that part of the city and spent an hour trying not to spend any money then headed back to Little India and to Arab St. 10pm… Read More »