the journey

The travelling hordes

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January 7th 2009
On Wednesday afternoon Karl and I and half of Shanghai decided to head off for New Years Eve. We left university with a crowd of students, all of us at the bus stop trying to get on buses already stuffed to the gunwales, trying to hail any cab, amazing. Lucky us managed to get a cab and we sped off to Century Ave Metro stop. This is a great metro station that has 3 lines of metro, is close ... 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