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Oops, There Went The Scenery
Blog: Uncommontravel - 22 December 2011
The ground roars and trembles, tipping the surging crowd down the narrow escalators. The train to Guangzhou rumbles into Hong Kong station. We obstinately hold our ground and move steadily towards our cabin. The uniformed woman gestures irritably. ‘Upstairs’, she says.
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In Search of African Guangzhou
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 10 January 2011
Guangzhou’s “Little Africa” — a stretch of trading markets near the Xiaobei (小北) metro stop — first came to my attention last year via an article in the New Yorker (subscribers only). I was intrigued by the notion of a different expat community from Beijing’s Sanlitun playground for the young-and-overpaid.
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A way to help this holiday season
Blog: Drink the Water - 20 December 2010
I wanted to share something I've been working on called the Lan Cun Education Project.
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Shamian Island: Lost In Time
Blog: Uncommontravel - 18 November 2010
Perhaps it’s the absence of direct sunshine, the oblique, halfhearted way the frail light falls that makes this island seem ephemeral as a bubble, seem to float in and out of focus like a mirage on the opaque waters of the vast Pearl River Delta.
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From the ragged Boundless West
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 29 August 2010
Guangxi the war ravaged mountains border of the Chinese Civilization, to the south the indomitable Vietnamese. Amongst the the far famed limestone karst peaks, old men fishing with tamed cormorants on mist drenched rivers, Guangxi is old mythical China of picture postcard, and it was to be my last taste of the mysterious Orient before [...]
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Hong Kong, dropping anchor
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 29 May 2010
23rd Oct Dark and silhouetted, silently a junk sails across a half sunken simmering golden disc. Dawn she spreads her rose red fingers across the South China Sea, in my minds eyes I see her. The gate of the Orient approaches fast, in the frothing of the maelstrom, in the quickening of the stream, East [...]
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Guangzhou’s Weird & Wonderful Markets
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 21 April 2010
Last week’s visit to Guangzhou was not all work and no play. The conference included one day of specialized tours of Guangzhou, which for me meant a trip to two of Guangzhou’s fascinating specialty markets. The first, informally known as the Pets Market, was a veritable zoo of small animals.
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3 Hours on the World’s Fastest Train
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 19 April 2010
In December, a new Chinese rail line claimed the title of fastest train in the world — and it just so happens to run right through Changsha, where I live.
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The Harmony Express
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 5 February 2010
I’m now back in Wuhan, having made the last leg of the trip in style on the newly-opened Harmony Express (和谐号), a high-speed train that connects Guangzhou to Wuhan in around 3 hours, making it the fastest in the world. It’s more expensive than the slower sleeper train — 490 rmb for a ticket in [...]
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Guangzhou: Thoughts in a Chinese Restaurant
Blog: Uncommontravel - 4 November 2009
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A Random, Some-what Scary Encounters on Shamian Island, Guangzhou
Blog: asian ramblings - 2 August 2009
I wanted to shoot Shamian Island in Guangzhou. You never know who you meet in the capital city of Guangdong Province in south China. Scary? A little.
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Hong Kong to Guangzhou
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 24 May 2009
I can’t remember exactly where I left the blog and I can’t check because I can’t log into wordpress at the moment…so I’m typing this out on the word processor and when I get some better access I’ll update it. Macau was on the agenda for Wednesday, but after walking out of the Tsim Sha Tsiu MTR station in Kowloon I remembered that passports would be a handy little item if one wanted to leave Hong Kong and enter another ‘country.’ Passports were in the drawer back at Bec and Ryan’s, ...
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