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Thursday, February 25
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Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 17:42 CST
In the village in the middle of the tea plantation, we stumbled across a wedding ... more »
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Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 17:34 CST
On our last day in Yunnan we got a tractor ride through a huge tea plantation ... more »
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Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 17:27 CST
This guy had made tens of different style chilli pastes to bring to the market to sell ... more »
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Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 17:14 CST
We arrived at this location about an hour before sunrise, hoping to be mesmerised by the view as the sun rose over the mountains ... more »
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Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 17:08 CST
I don't know if it happens every morning, but when we arrived at the Chaoyangmen in the centre of Jianshui, a huge amount of people had gathered with caged birds ... more »
by
Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 17:02 CST
I had hoped to use the long bus rides we were taking to catch up on some much needed sleep ... more »
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Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 16:54 CST
This sort of scenery makes taking a long bus ride across the Yunnan countryside more than worthwhile ... more »
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Matt
on Thu 25 Feb 2010 16:27 CST
The Chinese Spring Festival (or Chinese New Year to westerners) is the biggest public holiday in the Chinese calendar (incidentally, it’s now the Year of the Tiger). Every year Chinese people go back to their parents to celebrate with their families, leaving huge metropolises like Beijing bizarrely ghost town-esque and devoid of life. It’s also an excellent chance for us expats to take a break from city life and go on a tour of China, or at least part of China anyway. This year, Hannah and I decided to go to Yunnan Province in the south west of China; it borders Laos, Vietnam and Burma (or should that be Myanmar? – I can never remember) and has lovely tropical weather, so we’d be feeling an early burst of summer sun, as well as escape from the freezing temperatures of Beijing (honestly, it’s still brass monkeys here, although it’s getting less cold every day) ... more »
Friday, October 23
by
Matt
on Fri 23 Oct 2009 13:34 CST
I now know a little of what it feels like to be Stephen Hawking. No, not in that way (I can feel the scoffing already); I mean by having to distill an immense amount of information into something digestible by the general public (or in my case by a handful of friends and family and those arseholes that spam the trackbacks). Hawking undertook this onerous task when writing his masterpiece, “A Brief History of Time”. This was a seminal piece of work that furthered his genius (to even more seemingly improbable heights) simply because he was able to take the most complex human imaginings and theories (a lot of which were his own) and make them understandable to the layperson. Make no mistake, this was a hugely important piece of work, and he understandably received plaudits from every quarter of the universe for it. The work I present here is far more important than that, and it’ll only be read by a tiny fraction of the people that read Hawking’s gem and receive no acclaim whatsoever. I suppose my genius will always be underappreciated ... more »
Tuesday, October 13
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Matt
on Tue 13 Oct 2009 15:46 CST
No trip to Japan is officially complete without a photo of its highest mountain (and it's an extinct volcano to boot) ... more »
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Matt
on Tue 13 Oct 2009 15:36 CST
This is just one of many small alleyways and side streets that are crammed with bars in Kyoto. Each sign shown here is advertising a completely different bar ... more »
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Matt
on Tue 13 Oct 2009 15:30 CST
Because the ground is carpeted with moss rather than grass, it gives the appearance of it being a model miniature when photographed ... more »
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