The Travels of a Curious Old Man

And his equally curious companion, who looks younger

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Monday, 25 August 2008

The Silk Road in China: Postscipt

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[Update Jan 2020 at the end] Xinjiang provided us with a host of wonderful memories, but we would rather forget the ever-present and ove...
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  ...
Monday, 18 August 2008

Khotan (or Hotan or Hetian), City in the Desert: The Chinese Silk Road Part 7

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15/08/2008 Khotan (or Hotan or Hetian): First Impressions China Khotan is a desert city, there is no mistaking it. The dust of t...
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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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