Best “Auld Lang Syne”
If you are celebrating New Year’s Eve near a computer, click on the video below, turn up the speakers full-bore, and listen to the best version ever of Auld Lang Syne! Read more..
China On A Budget - Shanghai
Part 4 - Shanghai
Sunday 27/6/2010
It’s 6.00 am on a wet and misty but beautiful morning as we sit on the street-level terrace eating breakfast in Yangshuo before our cab arrives for the ride to the airport. Yangshuo was one place we were very reluctant to leave. It’s tranquility washed over you like a shroud and enveloped you to such a degree that you forget everything but the surrounding vista. Read more..
A Stockyard View of NT Cattle Crisis
Written by Rashida Khan.
Rashida works with her partner who manages a beef producing property in the Northern Territory. She also helps in the running of a second property for her father. Here is a day in her life as she battles cattle and bureaucratic bullshit. Read more..
China On A Budget - Yangshuo
Part 3 - Yangshuo
Wednesday 23/6/2010
The staff at the Ibis Hotel arranged a cab to run us to the airport for our flight to Guilin, and eventually to beautiful Yangshuo. I’m not sure if the taxi driver was on a promise or what, but he was certainly in a hurry to get to the airport. Read more..
China On A Budget - Xi’an
Part 2 - Xi’an
Sunday 20/6/2010
Our cab arrived on time at the hotel to take us to Bejing Airport for our flight to Xi’an, about an hour’s journey southwest of Bejing. On arrival at Xi’an (the ancient capital of China) a tout approached us inside the terminal (we had targets painted on our backs) and offered to drive us into the city in a private car for the price of 180y ($30). Read more..
China On A Budget - Bejing
I’m writing an account of a recent holiday my wife and I had in China. I’ve broken it down into four parts, one for each area we visited: Bejing, Xi’an, Yangshuo and Shanghai. I hope I can make it sound as interesting as it was in person. Read more..
