I write this from the extraordinary comfort of my living room, having just roused myself from my last activity – two entire hours flat out on my back on the living room floor. We left China in the wake of the approaching superTyphoon Meranti, which hit Taiwan and then came ashore in China during our […]
Not far enough from the madding crowd
I think the crucial thing to know about eating in China is that it’s important to arrive at a meal having eaten a pre-meal entree, consisting of snack food from Keebler or some ice cream if you can locate it. It’s key that you have no need for sustenance whatsoever. And then it’s also important […]
Random act of kindness
Yesterday I got on the bus in Xi’an, heading to the airport to fly to Shanghai, and my tour mate Ruby handed me a bottle of water she had frozen in her hotel room refrigerator, in effect creating, just for me, a large bottle of ice water for me in a land where I cannot […]
Shopping our way through China
I try to be completely honest with you all, even if it paints me in a not-so-favorable light, and so I say in my defense that I DID think the Terra Cotta soldiers were interesting today, but it’s a site, similar to the Louvre Museum, that I can be in and out of in an […]
