Yesterday damn near killed me ( Read more... )

Possibly a technical flaw in our plans to write here - livejournal seems to be blocked in most of mainland China. I have, however, successfully escaped to Hong Kong. Just thought I should reassure anybody expecting to read something here that we didn't get squished, despite our best efforts ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I dragged narrauko up the Great Wall of China. Excellent times. 30 watchtowers, 10km, more steps than I cared to count. Gondor don' got nutthin' on this shit. On one side we were assured Beijing existed somewhere in the distance, and on the other Outer Mongolia. Lots of green mountains both ways, with the odd farm dotted here and there. We tried ( Read more... )

We're currently in a particularly elusive hutong in Beijing, in the internet room of the originally named Hutong Inn. This is entirely intentional. Whatever our friends or families may inform you we did not accidentally board a plane in the mistaken belief that it was the 310A bus to East Ruislip.

A hutong, for those of you cowering at home with ( Read more... )