Getting Back to China: Part One – A Chaotic Start
If you’d told me when I boarded a flight from Guangzhou to Dhaka on January 20th that I wouldn’t be able to set foot in China again until almost 10 […]
Category Archives: China
In Pictures: Guangzhou
A picture is apparently worth a thousand words, so instead of writing a few thousand more words about my trip to Guangzhou here are some of my favourite pictures from the trip!
Sipping on Sum Morning Cha in Guangzhou
Of the many famous Cantonese foods, dim sum is quite possibly the most well-known around the world and, as a result, was very high on my to-eat list in Guangzhou. […]
Free Beer at Guangzhou’s Zhujiang Museum!
Throughout my time in China the large majority of the beer I’ve put away has been Tsingtao or Snow, with the occasional Dalian Beer thrown in for good measure. Craft […]
Behind Bars in Lvshun Prison
Thanks to Dalian’s proximity to Russia (in relative terms, anyway!) and its history which I won’t even claim to know anything about, there remains quite a lot of Soviet influence […]
A Day at the North Korean Border in Dandong
For reasons unknown to me (and many), I’m fascinated by North Korea. I think it’s the secrecy; the fact that it’s so difficult to see and to understand, which makes […]
Supporting My Local Team With Hamsik, Carrasco, Rafa and Co!
Well that didn’t take long, did it? I mentioned a while ago that one of the few things I actually knew about Dalian before taking my job here was that […]
First Impressions of Dalian
Another year, another home! Ok, that makes me sound like part of the travelling community, but you get what I mean. Avid readers of this blog (they do exist, I […]
Time to Duran-go
As New Order once put it: I used to think that the day would never come. As it happens though, the day is here and today I’m leaving Durango and […]
200 Posts of Rambling Northerner!
It recently dawned on me that I’ve been writing this blog for quite a while now – just over four years in fact – since I left home for a […]
