a man trying to escape with his elderly mother

A tale of two cities

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August 9th 2010
Since my last posting we have visited Xi'an, home of the terrocotta warriers where we spent four days and Nanjing where we stopped overnight to break up excessively long train journeys on very hard seats. Xi'an is one of those places that seems to be on the must see list of every traveller to the region, if I had the time again I would not visit . To my mind the city lacked character and its f ... 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