nick’s (n)-line life

Asiapundit has inspired me to do a post on traffic in China, something which is often joked about and quite entertaining, at least until things go pear shaped (as we'll see in the second part of this article). Anyway, with traffic-lights like this:
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Happy Songkran everyone! สวัสดีปีใหม่ Songkran (สง�?รานต์) is the New Year festival celebrated in Thailand & Laos as well as, less ostentatiously, in Burma and Cambodia. In Thailand (and increasingly in Laos) the festival is marked by massive public water fights. Funnily enough, the water fights originally grew from people "sprinkling" water on each [...]

My college were kind enough to award me a travel grant over the summer.Following my return, the College asked me to produce a written report of my summer and I thought I’d post a copy here for general interest: Travel Grant Report (PDF format)
Photos From the Summer

Hong Kong

China

Northern Laos

Luang Prabang

Central Laos

Cambodia, General

Housebuilding Laos

Thailand

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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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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 [...]

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Hi all, I’m back from my weekend of fun on the Clare Farm Development Weekend, hosted by EWB and RedR.

The weekend was very instructive and informative, if rather gruelling (the Saturday ran from 7am until 10pm). We were taught lots about basic construction [...]