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Blog 12: Highway Robbery, High Walks and High Hopes.

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August 24th 2009
Blog 12: Highway Robbery, High Walks and High Hopes. If there’s one thing you can say about Kunming, is that it smells nice when it rains. It truly does. I have now been on a train for 26 hours. I think that’s plenty of time to be on a train, so Richard Branson, if you’re reading this, I would like a special card please that I can use when I’m on trains in the UK. If they get delayed, I ... 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