Bullet Train, Tokyo

Lost in Translation (pt2)

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April 26th 2008
Hi All, Greetings from Beijing! We visited the Great Wall of China today, but I'll save that for the next, and possibly last, blog. Apologies in advance for any spelling errors; the letters on this keyboard have nearly all rubbed off so I'm typing from memory and a bit of guess work! When I finished the last entry we had one more day left in Kyoto. We continued what we'd started on the first ... read more

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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