Pingyao

An overnight train will get you from Xi’an to Pingyao and another overnighter will take you back to Beijing. However, someone I met on the train told me I could have saved time taking a faster train from Taiyuan to

The Giant and I

  I met a giant who wanted to learn English so I started by teaching him the alphabet but no matter what I did he could only say the letter A in a deep low voice and pronounced no other

Fixed Gear Revolution 3

Two months ago I came in last for the BikeBoy alleycat race, a few weeks ago I finished fourth in the women’s category! I had no training or practice this time, haven’t even been going to yoga classes for some

LiNing Bike Boy Alleycat

Last month, I joined my first ever alleycat since I got my fixie from Natooke some time last summer and got DFL (dead fuckin’ last), well not really because I came back after the cut-off time. 4 hours and 40

Shanghai Tan

Meeting my mate, Mark (who’s doing a massive holiday around the world with his missus, lucky bastard), definitely put the icing on my vacation. It was Spring Festival and Shanghai was about as quiet as Beijing, minus smoking in public

Goodbye, Chongwenmen!

And here’s a picture of my 31.5m² of goodness that was my studio apartment in Chongwenmen. My bathroom was behind the kitchen and came with a shower head with strength of a leaking hose but made it up with a

Mucking around in South Korea

My CELTA mate, Greg, kindly put me up at his place at Yonsei University – a gorgeous campus and my first college-life experience. Seoul proved a little too cosmopolitan to excite me but still, it was refreshing to get my