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2016-10-25 06:55
Here’s some short travel memories from my Twitter account…
Travel diaries, 1991. In Xian’s mosque I again meet the old man. He’s 82, worked for British in the 1930s… Read More
2015-10-19 06:49
It’s fairly certain that I’m not the first person to point this out or to even notice this, but there has been a distinct lack of compelling suspense novels written in the second… Read More
2015-05-12 06:52
As the bus winds its way up the mountain towards Ebino Kogen, I am starting to question my decision to come here at all. From one moment to the next, we are entering dense fog and all around… Read More
2015-04-21 06:41
Memories… is a random series of memories of my trips to Asia in the late 80s and early 90s.
Chengdu, Summer of 1993
The cup is handleless, rather tall and slim, with a gorgeous blue g… Read More
2015-03-11 08:10
Memories… is a random series of memories of my trips to Asia in the late 80s and early 90s.
It was the last day of a long summer of travelling through China. I had now been back in Be… Read More
2015-02-05 08:18
Before I start maybe a small historical note:
Late in 1988 – while I was in the military service in Germany – I had read in a newspaper that it had become possible to book a pass… Read More
2014-11-27 05:08
Memories… is a random series of memories of my trips to Asia in the late 80s and early 90s. Here is an excerpt from my travel diary of a trip to Hangzhou in eastern China in 1993.
The… Read More
2013-11-30 09:19
In early June of 1989 I had made my way through China to Guangzhou in southern China near the mouth of the Pearl River and only a day’s worth of travel from Hong Kong. The weather was… Read More
2013-05-31 06:04
Memories… is a random series of memories of my trips to Asia in the late 80s and early 90s.
Long-distance buses were probably my least favorite mode of transportation in China. It is… Read More
2013-05-24 06:30
On my first backpacking trip to China I witnessed what can only be called a revolution – although an unsuccessful one – and it is certainly among the moments of my life that will… Read More
2013-05-18 07:04
Memories… is a random series of memories of my trips to Asia in the late 80s and early 90s.
One of the very unexpected features of backpacking around China in the late eighties and e… Read More
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