having a delicious Uzbek lunch with Stefania and Oliver, 2 diplomats from Italy and Germany

Elaine (from Canada) and I spent a couple of days visiting Khiva together. She would get very upset when the Uzbek asked her if she was Chinese... The Uzbek would always pretend to speak Chinese to her blurring a lot of "ching-chong-xin" at her...

8 INCROYABLE months on a bike!

March 21st 2014
I still can’t believe it’s over. It’s actually been a while now. After cycling from Gansu Province to Xinjiang, then on to the <em style="line-height: 1.428571429;">Stans , Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, I am back with Becky in Beijing, China. I have a good job (back to teaching) and surprisingly often enough the sky is amazingly blue over the city. Of course there ... read more

Asia » China » Xinjiang

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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