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On a bicycle made for two

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May 13th 2007
Day 49 As if we hadn't had enough punishment on our first bike ride, we decided to once again go cycling, but this time we upped the ante by hiring a tandem - or as we liked to call it, a bicycle made for two. With this added excitement we decided to stick to the comfort of smooth (or not so smooth in some cases) tarmac roads. We rode out of town towards Moon Hill, one of the local peaks wh ... 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