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Getting Back to China: Part One – A Chaotic Start

November 16, 2020by ramblingnortherner Leave a comment

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 […]

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China, Indonesia

In Pictures: Guangzhou

February 2, 2020by ramblingnortherner Leave a comment

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!

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China

Sipping on Sum Morning Cha in Guangzhou

January 28, 2020by ramblingnortherner 4 Comments

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. […]

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China

Free Beer at Guangzhou’s Zhujiang Museum!

January 24, 2020by ramblingnortherner 2 Comments

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 […]

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China

Behind Bars in Lvshun Prison

December 1, 2019by ramblingnortherner Leave a comment

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 […]

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China

A Day at the North Korean Border in Dandong

November 3, 2019by ramblingnortherner 1 Comment

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 […]

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China

Supporting My Local Team With Hamsik, Carrasco, Rafa and Co!

October 27, 2019by ramblingnortherner 2 Comments

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 […]

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China

First Impressions of Dalian

September 8, 2019by ramblingnortherner 3 Comments

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 […]

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China

Time to Duran-go

June 27, 2019by ramblingnortherner 1 Comment

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 […]

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China, spain

200 Posts of Rambling Northerner!

July 7, 2017by ramblingnortherner Leave a comment

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 […]

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