Hangzhou and Heaven on Earth, the West Lake
April 14th 2007 Saturday, 14 April, 19.00: As I write, I’m sitting in my 4-person soft sleeper compartment in Beijing, having successfully negotiated bike, taxi, train and now another train today. As I wrote last night, my plan was to bike around West Lake today. In order to do that, I had to get up bright and early (not my favorite thing to do), have breakfast (also not my favorite thing to do) to provide fu
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