The Travels of a Curious Old Man

And his equally curious companion, who looks younger

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Showing posts with label China-Xinjiang Region. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China-Xinjiang Region. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 June 2020

Praying Facing West: The Variety of Mosques Part 2

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This post and its companions (Praying Facing East and Praying Facing South) have been developed from the November 2011 post ‘Three Favourit...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Images of Mao

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The Cultural Revolution Made Images of Mao Problematic for the Chinese State Although the Communist Party remains very much in control, Ch...
Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Urumqi, A By-word for Remoteness: The Chinese Silk Road Part 8

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!8/08/2008 At Urumqi, Rana greeted us like old friends. Her driver, too, looked a lot happier than at our tentative  first encounter at  ...
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I have always travelled, but I didn’t start blogging about it until 2010, Back then I had just I retired and fondly imagined I was still middle aged. Being now over 70, I'm forced to admit that I am inexorably and ungraciously becoming an Old Man. I can still do (almost) everything I could in my youth; it just takes longer and requires more effort. I have always been curious and still enjoy travelling because that curiosity remains undimmed. I am curious about geography, languages, food, politics, religion, food, architecture, history, food (always a favourite!), wild life and the list goes on … Being a former teacher, I feel a need to share my discoveries, hence the blog. I may, perhaps, be curious in a different way, but that is for others to judge
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