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June 21st 2011
A four day trip to Hong Kong to celebrate finishing teaching and my 23rd birthday. We managed to fit in many different things; we enjoyed the hustle and bustle of the city, as well as the beautiful scenery of the surrounding areas. ... read more
April 18th 2011
Some friends of ours came up with the great idea of going to Shanghai for a weekend to watch the Shanghai Grand Prix, so Sarah and I immediately signed up along with the 4 others and that was what we did. I was lucky in that I had the Friday off anyway so I was able to go a little earlier that the others who followed on Saturday in time for the qualifying, so I had a day on my own to see a few sites. Shanghai was really cool and our hostel was right in the centre, so I did my best to see as much as possible. I made it over to the French Concession to see the first meeting place of the China Communist Party way back when it was still an underground ... read more
April 18th 2011
In March I went back to Hong Kong with a friend of mine (Dan) for a quick weekend. He had mentioned the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens a few weeks back, and by coincidence it happened to be my birthday that weekend, so the oppurtunity was simply too good to miss! The rugby was amazing and was in a great location - the purpose-built stadium is overlooked by steep hills covered in jungle-like vegetation - so a pretty dramatic day place! We saw most of the big teams including England, SA, NZ, Australia, Argentina, Samoa, Tonga and France, some of who played each other, and lots of smaller teams as well, so the rugby was first-class and the crowd was a lot of fun as well. The place feels like a rugby festival so there's not a ... read more
March 5th 2011
After Beijing, Sarah and I went with my parents to Xi'an to see the Terracotta Army. We also saw a few other things whilst we were there, including a Chinese Mosque in the Muslim Quarter of town which was a pretty strange blend of Chinese and Islamic styles, but was a bit of a hidden gem since to get there we had to go through some of the small winding alleys (hutong) which were full of interesting snacks and sights. We also went to a decent museum there and had some great food whilst we were in Xi'an, but to be honest the Terracotta Army was heads and shoulders above everything else. Check out the photos!... read more
March 4th 2011
Over the Chinese New Year I went to the south of China with two other teachers, Dan and Derrick. We went to the province of Yunnan, right on the Chinese border with Vietnam, Laos, and Burma. We rushed through Yunnan for the first few days, ignoring the sites of Kunming (the capital) and Li Jiang as we travelled by plane, train and eventually coach for two days solid to get to the north-west of the province, where the mountains are. It was great to look out of the train windows and watch the terrain change from urban China to more rural China - as the train climbed into the hills we went past amazing rice terraces and small farming villages. After spending a very cold winter in Wuhan - quite a dreary place - it felt ... read more
February 28th 2011
Along with two friends, Janna and Andrea, I travelled to Guangxi Province in the south of China. We spent to majority of our time walking and cycling along the beautiful Li River and its surrounding villages. We also celebrated Chinese New Year, which means only one thing - many, many fireworks.... read more
February 26th 2011
There was no way that we could be in China for all this time without checking out its most famous landmarks: the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall and the Terracotta Army. All of our colleagues who had been to Beijing told us that it was unmissable - many have been back several times over the past few years - so this is where we headed first just after the Chinese New Year. My (Henry) parents flew out to visit and to see the best of China with us, so we all met in a snowy Beijing in mid-February. Sarah and I had already spent a few days in Beijing, during which time we had a look at a few temples - the best of which was a slightly out-of-the-way Taoist Temple with a Tablet ... read more
January 2nd 2011
Once again, I went to Lushan with a few friends hoping to hike along the Wu Lao Feng (Five Old Men Peaks) but we were thwarted, this time because it was closed due to the dry weather and the risk of starting a fire. Nonetheless, our taxi driver invited himself along with us on our trip (no joke, he took us to the start of the walk and then got out of the car and walked with us for the next 5 hours or so!). He was nice enough although he spoke no English, and after a frustrating morning where we found that every turn we took was costing us more and more money we decided to take his advice and hike this well known route nearby where there is a series of waterfalls cascading down ... read more
More photographs from Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Huangxian (S)
Published: December 5th 2010Asia » China » Hubei » Wuhan
December 1st 2010
One of the main things I've been missing in Wuhan is the chance to get out of the city that you get in the UK. Wuhan is a truly enormous and a very industrial city. Don't get me wrong, it has its up-sides and the university campus is slightly better than the rest of the city, but generally its a bit of a concrete jungle. And the public transport available in China is not very good and is definitely not made easy for foreigners. In short, there are no last-minute decisions to walk from Sheffield into the Peak District! So Rob (another teacher) and I decided to rent some bikes one Saturday and keep cycling west until we got out of the city, noticing on the map that the university was quite close to the outskirts. ... read more
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