The garden in the middle of my hostel

I'm alive, half a year after departure!

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July 1st 2010
I hope everyone has had a good half year and that the second half is full or prosper and magnificence. Yes I am becoming Chinese. There's no fortune cookies here, god knows where that idea started from, but there's still lots of amusing well wishes. There's a restaurant near me that now my Chinese is getting better I can understand how it's become mistranslated. It is called 'First Noodle Under ... read more

Asia » China » Shanxi » Pingyao

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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