Good Old Qantas

Episode One: In which our heroine travels to the Orient

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November 19th 2005
Including her brave encounters with: Aeroplane food, Drug runners, Chinese immigration officials, Taxi drivers, Squat Toilets, Beggars, Street sellers, Chinese currency, Fighting crickets, Acrobats, Market stall-holders, Chinese masseuses and various culinary delights, among other things.... Read on if you dare. The plane trip over to China on Thursday was pretty uneventful. I ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more