Who needs expensive stapping to hold down industrial sized rolls of steel cable when gravity will do the trick? I suppose this was the thinking behind the packing decisions of this Chinese company. Perhaps the load was only going a short distance and they didn’t deem it necessary. Luckily my taxi driver was keeping his… Read More »
We know there’s a war between the shared bicycle schemes in Shanghai. I have counted 8 companies but apparently there are many more. The pavements and roads have become choked with (predominantly) the yellow Ofo and the original orange Mobike. However, recently I have noticed that people have been going around damaging them, removing wheels,… Read More »
Do you know what the speed of a marching Indonesian child is? I do, it’s torturous. It was only a 20 minute journey the taxi driver told me. Great, so I easily will make the connection and get to Ubud in time to collect my credit card I had left there a few days earlier… Read More »
With the number of cars on the roads in Nanjing minor bumps and accidents are not an uncommon sight. I don’t like seeing people splattered on the roads – bike/e.bike lying on its side nearby but it’s an unavoidable part of life in Nanjing. Typically when an accident happens on the roads, the drivers will… Read More »