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Published: February 10th 2010
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I am writing again because I am off to Xinjiang today for Spring Festival. For political reasons I won't go into now, the internet is extremely limited there so I'll be out of contact until perhaps the 24th Feb when I attempt to increase the estimated 2.45 billion journeys made over spring festival by 1. The next stop will probally be Nanjing or Shanghai. They are both very near each other, which is handy. Also I have made a few contacts living there I can hopefully get in touch with. On the negative side, They are on opposite ends of China. Lets put it this way, driving from L.A. to New York City would take 20 less hours than this journey.
But I think it will be worth it for experiencing a genuine Chinese New Years. I will write the reality once it's been digested but I am told to expect dog, bears feet, crickets, chicken feet, turtle blood soup, ducks neck and any organ you care to name. Open mind, open stomach? Had cow stomach the other day... Wasn't too bad...
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Mike Brown
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Good luck
Very enterprising Richard. Cow stomach, known to us as tripe was loved by my mother, who used to eat it raw with vinegar. Lord knows what you will be offered, but good for you for giving it all a go. Love you lots, Grandma and Granddad