This is the tale of the past few days for me. I’m home safe now, but for a while, I was actually worried, almost scared about what was going to happen next.I first realised I may have an issue with…
Chinese and Russian carry on luggage
Sorry to anyone who missed me or thought I’d gone missing. I’ve been internetless with plenty of other mishaps and adventures in between!I left Guangzhou for the long flight to Ashgabat via Urumqi in Western China. I ended up sitting…
Canton Tower
A quick update with a photo of Canton Tower. This tower is huge at over 600 metres high. Fortunately the ticket price to go up was enough to convince my fear of heights it was not worth the trip up.…
It is pronounced Guang-Jo
Firstly, lets settle the age old debate on pronouncing the city of Guangzhou’s name. Its Guang-jo, not Guang-jow or Guang-show. OK now that’s settled, lets move on shall we… I will let you call it Canton, the locals still call…