Something nice about China's smaller cities is the option of the 'in-between' transport hire - the motor trishaw. I call them the Scooty. These fancy little open taxis usually hang around train and bus stations to ferry people through winding small little off-the-map streets to their homes. These motor trishaws have zero suspension, go at …
Where the Wall ends.
Isn't this simply out of this world? This is Jiayuguan Pass, on the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province. The mountain range at the back is the Qilian Shan range, and it was the sole passage in and out of the 'Middle Kingdom' in the past. Hard to imagine this was the place, where the Great …
When they don’t serve forks and knives…
(No, this is not a chopstick story.) I was famished and only managed to have my lunch at 4.30pm last weekend. (I'll save that for another story...) Anyway, I stumbled into a great place for a sandwich - a good, juicy one - at Paris Baguette. With a name like that, it could only be …
Little Roots in China 