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