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Into Shanghai, and then Inland China

Cathy: Its like going into the future.
Rupert (the architect): Its like going into the future where all the buildings are dirty.
Cathy: Except the ones that were built yesterday.
(conversation about Shanghai I was sitting in on)
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Boat from Korea to China; cycling down to Nanjing

Current Location: Nanjing, China
“Monsieur, do not wake a sleeping lion? (Napoleon, on seeing China’s potential)

“What is ideology? It is a kind of spirit to make sluggish people industrious and intelligent people even more capable. [...]

Inland China to Hong Kong

“Our moral nature is such that we cannot be idle and at ease” - Leo Tolstoy

“It is an unnatural business to find yourself in a strange place with an underutilized brain and no particular reason for being there, and eventually it makes you [...]

Field of Dreams

How Tourism works in China [...]

Hong Kong and China

So I last left you in Auckland taking the flight to HongKong.
I arrived to hongkong after a flight that was really nice and passed fast, I reached the city pretty easily and descended from the bus to the station where I got a recommendation for a che [...]

More From China

Well last time i wrote everyone I was in dali, a really cool old city.
So I actually did stay there a few days, and it was very nice.
In dali I met Oz and Yael an israeli couple we were with in yangshou and shlomi again. And also 3 israeli girls [...]

Bunkasai: Japanese School Festival. Shout with Joy!

This entry is not terribly important, but I wanted to show you a high school festival because they are very important in Japan, and something we don't have in America. This weekend was Kabe Koko's Bunkasai, or in English, culture festival. Pronoun [...]

Greeting Götheborg

I must admit that the location is a bit of a lie - I've been home for more than a week already. But sitting at home in my apartment that I share with my very good friend Johanna after a long day of school and work I just felt I wanted to do something [...]

I have a friend at last

Met Max at Beijing airport today was so so good to see her but was getting a bit worried as she was last off the plane .... [...]

Yangtze River - 1995

Yangtze River - 1995 [...]