Longing to emerge from the sooty winter days of Qingdao, I happened on the opportunity to go treasure hunting for some Yuan Dynasty ceramics in the south half of the country in a place called Jingdezhen. Hangzhou was the city I would fly into. A good friend of mine who works in Anji, an hour […]
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After a quick flight from Beijing to YYZ I’m back in Canada for the first time in 8 months. It feels like even less. A few notes on this little trip so far.
If you’re flying from Toronto to Beijing, make sure to get on the direct flight. The airplanes are the most modern in the […]
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The train from Beijing to Lhasa leves Beijing West (Beijingxi huochezhan) Station at 9:30pm. For some reason we were recommended to arrive like 2 hours early because it was such a big station and we would need it to find our way around and all that bullshit the travel people tell you. Realistically, you could […]
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It has begun. This will be my last post from Canadian soil. Trying to sleep last night was a mission in itself. For some impromptu reason a noise manifested itself from within the walls of my room right by the head of my bed, and my head. It was like there was a team of […]
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