Summer Palace

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June 7th 2006
Firstly, with regards the last blog, I apologise for the lack of stirring photos of the Great Wall etc., but the digital camera was in Alison's bag... (fortunately, we still had the SLR). I guess you'll just have to wait for my return to the UK for me to bore you senseless with slide after slide, after slide, after slide...zzzzzzzz This entry is more for the benefit of would be visitors to Beij ... 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

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Alasdair Sutherland

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Myself and my girlfriend, bestfriend and travelling companion, Alison are both staring down the barrel of starting careers in the legal profession (yawn), and thus decided that the transition from liberal, care free students to boring, 9-5 droids could only be properly achieved by embarking on the "trip-of-a-lifetime"! And so it is that we are off to China for the next two months on a gastronomical, cultural, spiritual (blah blah blah) extravaganza!! Goodbye Aberdeen, friends, family and acquaintances...watch this space!... full info

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