The Travels of a Curious Old Man

It Isn't Really a Holiday Unless you Have Been Round a Graveyard... ...as Lynne so often says. Père Lachaise in Paris and Highgate C...

Daoist Temples in Hong Kong and Southern China A Little About Daoism and the Transliteration of Chinese Characters The Bagua used to exp...

Meeting Two of China's Ethnic Minorities in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 05-Nov-2010 China We spent the nig...

We were woken at five thirty by an artillery barrage which turned out, on closer inspection, to be firecrackers. I was still wrestling ...

A Preserved Town, Guizhou's Modern Capital and Lunch in a Miao Village 03-Nov-2010 China The Artfully Pickled Qing Dynasty Town of...