Simon Lewis: sinosimon
I came across a really great blog written by a travel writer now based in China. He seems to be mostly around Yunnan province, but has a few entries in Shanghai, Tibet and other cool places.
It’s a refreshing change to see real writing, unlike the stuff I come up with, which is mostly for me to record what I’m doing, as well as to share with friends and family.
There’s plenty of stuff that I could happily quote, but so far I think this is my favourite bit:
“An American was filming a pedestrian crossing, whispering a commentary into his video camera’s microphone: ‘one billion people… a sea of humanity… crossing the road.’ There weren’t one billion people crossing the road, but there were certainly far more than could reasonably be expected.”
This causes me quite a bit of concern: our holiday is all planned around the Chinese New Year festivities, and we’re expecting to visit all of the big tourist sites in Beijing, Xi’an and Hangzhou at just the same time as all of the locals. I’m seriously considering changing our itinerary such that we visit Thailand and Cambodia before Beijing… at least that way we’ll be well away from the crowds.
But I digress, do yourself a favour and head over to www.simonlewiswriter.com/blog/ for some really great writing.
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