So, I write this blog on a day where the weather was a low of 7′c and a high of 18′c… In England; that’d be a pretty good day, break out the T-shirt kinda weather. However, just over 2 weeks ago, when I took this photos, it was a very different story…

So, way back on the 21st of January myself and B headed to Xi’an to visit her Auntie, Uncle and little cousin. While we were there we decided to check out the Wild Goose Pagoda. The park it’s in also features a huge water fountain, the largest in Asia I believe, and at night they throw in some lights and music and put on a show. Anyway, I grabbed the camera, and B grabbed her cousin, and we headed to check it out…

Okay, not quite the wilderness, but I am back! I had an excellent time and Chinese new year was amazing. I have many, many tales to tell, and even more photos to post. Including over a thousand from before I even went away. I’m a little busy with work at the moment, but hopefully in the next few days, the posts will start flooding.

Thanks for tuning in!

I’m about to head to An’kang; Beryl’s hometown for spring festival. I’m unsure what internet access will be like, and I’ll assume I won’t have any. If that’s the case; I’ll see you in about 10 days.

Above is a random shot of the current weather. The roads are just ice. Awesome.

Just returned from climbing Hua Shan, again. It was good fun, and very tiring. This time I went to all 5 peaks. Full write-up coming soon. I have 750 photos to edit, and about another 3-4 blog posts I need to do about other things that have happened. Let alone the fact that spring festival / Chinese new year is fast approaching. Ahhhh, busy, busy, busy!

“Random Snap” is a new category/feature on the blog for when I just have one thing I want to share, and doesn’t quite merit it’s own blog post. The quality of the photography may also be lacking and even from *gasp* a camera-phone!

So, a few weeks ago now we were warmly invited to Peggy’s wedding. Peggy is one of the Chinese Teachers at Aston, so we gracefully accepted and went along, this time armed with B’s compact camera.

So, in my last post I alluded to this. On the way home from Fuping, I was looking at the sun and thinking “that looks a bit strange.” at first I shrugged it off as my eyes going a bit funny… but then it started to look more and more odd, until I realised… it’s an eclipse

A few weeks ago I took a trip to Fuping county with some Chinese friends. One of my friends has a business exporting dried persimmon to Korea. In fact, I had no idea what a persimmon was, so I was quite intrigued…

Okay, so this post is now 25 days old, but; better late than never and all that…

Say ‘hello’ to the latest iteration of the QQ. This is where normally I’d tell you if it’s the QQ2, or the QQ3 or the QQ4…but, the internet isn’t even able to clairfy. Probably because I search in English, and this car is pretty much unknown in the English-speaking world. Well, apart from it’s original ancestor. There’s an interesting tale behind the original Chery QQ, it’s basically a carbon copy of the Cheverolet Spark (The Daewoo Matiz) to Europeans, but with zero agreement or royalties to Cheverolet. Welcome to the land of copying…