The Beijing Summer Palace The Summer Palace is located in northern Beijing and was first created many hundreds of years ago as the summer resort for the imperial family. It suffered destruction during two foreign invasions and was rebuilt each time. It is now open as a grand garden representing several styles and is home to […]
Beijing and my adventures with transport Another trip on the fast expensive train on Friday night had me in Beijing on time. The train arrived at a different part of the station and I had to walk past a vast area where probably hundreds of people were bunked down for the night. An increasingly longer […]
Last Weekend Soon after my return to China my TV stopped working. We had never actually turned it on but the channel indicator on a connected machine disappeared and couldn’t be made to return. No visible results occurred after weeks of discussions with management. On Friday evening I returned from class to find a note […]
The Return to China As usual it was an early morning departure following insufficient sleep the previous night. We, Son Number One on his return to the UK via China and I, arrived at the airport just before the rush and got to wait for out flight. At Sydney we were bused from the domestic […]
The “domestic” or chivalry isn’t dead and the shake down Yesterday morning I caught the bus on my way to a temple. The lunch time rush was starting so I got to stand just inside the front doors. I soon heard and saw a very heated discussion between an elderly man who was standing at the […]