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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
2015 in Review: My Top Five Travel Highlights
2015 has been a year filled with many highs, some real lows, and a few periods of…well…absolutely bugger all to be honest. It started very much in the same vein […]
2014 in Review: My Top Five Travel Highlights
Well that was fun, wasn’t it? 2014 really was an absolute belter for me. Although the end of 2013 was by far the worst period of my short life to date and […]
Completing Bucket List Item #42: Visit The Great Wall of China
Since I started compiling my bucket list a few years ago, visiting China and more specifically The Great Wall has been one of my priorities. You could say I was […]
Visiting Xi’an’s Terracotta Warriors
As our time in China was slightly more limited than in Thailand and Vietnam, it’s been a case of seeing as much as possible in as little time as possible. […]
