Tourism is a funny wee pastime. You arrive in a train station, weary from the travel somewhere on the other side of the world knowing that you now have 24 to 48 hours to hit the very places which thousands of travelers have raved about over the last however many years. You feel guilt for going to a place where everyone else has gone. Man, you think, I am boring, I am a lemming, I have no creativity… but at the back of your mind, you know there is a reason why everyone goes there and dammit, I am not going to miss out! Paris has its Eiffel Tower, San Francisco has its bridge, Nashua NH has Bertucci’s, and Xi’an has four halls of Terracotta soldiers which should without a doubt not be ignored. Qin Shi
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