nick’s (n)-line life

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Kunming is cold. Not cold like England, admittedly but still cold. If England was an ice cube pressed against the back of your neck then Kunming would be a wet flannel to the forehead. Trust me, after the turbo-charged sauna that is Canton province this is cold enough to notice! Enough that I spent [...]

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Apologies to all. A database error caused the site to come down for thirty hours or so. This has now been corrected and all is as it should be again.

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And so it was that I found myself sitting on the middle bunk of a hard sleeper train heading towards Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, China’s wild west, about to embark on my journey-proper. The province, for years treated as a savage and isolated backwater by Beijing, offers access to some of China’s [...]

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Leaving Hong Kong was harder to leave than I had anticipated, even with the exhilarating and imminent promise of the open road ahead of me. Leaving friends is perhaps the hardest part of traveling, especially when you’re not sure of how and when you’ll meet again. It often saddens me when I think back [...]