Frozen Moment in China There are people that would like to gain more time by freezing it. Having survived the last days in China I would for nothing in the world voluntarily freeze anything at all. . . Wrapped up like Santa Clause, my dear friend from Germany accompanies me while facing the chilly temperatures of Beijing's vanishing winter. Yet, each time getting off the subway station we doubt that it is vanishing at all. It rather seems as if it just starte...

It has been a while and hence there are but a couple of days left. . . As it is without your own computer and without having internet access wherever you go, you loose the need and the eagerness to go online just to write a few lines. After all, it is difficult to put into words, what you are experiencing in such a foreign world. Even before my camera has been stolen I thought over and over again that it might be sad that I am not a professional photographer an...

Leaving China going to Vietnam Eventually I learned to say today "I have already stayed in China for one month". Yet, from now on there is no need to say that anymore - at least not for the next month that I will spend in Vietnam and maybe in Laos before heading back to China. Once again enjoying the wonderful hospitality of the Chinese I would not dare to say that I am glad to leave - even if I am anxiously looking forward to go and explore Vietnam....

Three weeks of. . . . on the first night alone in China I come to realise that I have already passed three weeks in this country that I familiarized somewhat quickly and yet still leaves me stunned so many times. Three weeks of seeing the most beautiful and amazing mountains, rich of tasty tea and rice cultures (to say it the Chinese way) alongside the highest hills of trash I have ever seen. Three weeks of glimpsing at Chinese pleasurably caressing their na...

After having visited the bank once more I could finally buy the bottles I fell in love with the other day and around 10 o'clock in the morning we were heading for our first stop in the suburbs of Shanghai where I got to see a little nice old town. Driving through the Shanghain traffic had been one of the greatest challenges on this trip so far: sharing the lane with all the other Chinese riding cycle or motorcycle to work was not only exhausting but also very i...