The Price of Tea in China: Schoolboy Errors In Beijing
“You’re white. You’re English. You can afford it,” the petite, professionally dressed, and hitherto slightly sexy student lady said, pushing hard for the sale. We’d seen…
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Console Me: All The World’s A Level In A Videogame
Having sunk well over 20 hours into Sleeping Dogs and its awesome depiction of Hong Kong recently, I got thinking about the link between two…
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Help reunite Po and this British Soldier: 55 years in the making!
About a year ago I met an old Korean man in my local post office called Po (70’ish), who served with the British forces…
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Monkey Boy is Back
The Monkey Boy Goes is back…. well sort of. Since MobileMe went down and my patience ran out with iWeb, I’ve basically got to start all over again. I’m still trying to…
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Dancing With The Joseon And Samurai At The Tongshinsa Festival
There was once a time when Japan and Korea weren’t hurling abuse, colonising, squabbling over rocks in the sea or blasting half-baked missiles over…
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Street art and Escapism in Busan’s Favela.
After canning it up the hill at what must have been record speed, I couldn’t get off the mini bus fast enough. The nausea…
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Travels In A Mushroom Kingdom: Yangshuo, China
Peeking out of my soft sleeper cabin’s window a few hours previously, the moon shone a mysterious communist red, reminding me of the distance…
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The Japanese Earthquake 2011: A Personal Experience
It struck around 2:45 in the afternoon on what had been a beautiful spring day. I was in good spirits due to the winding…
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How Did I End Up Here?
Despite graduating from university with a pointless degree, without a penny to my name, mounting debts and the inability to find a decent job….
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The Lake, The Snow, The Smell and The Fujisan: Hakone, Japan
After we hiked up to the top of Owakudani we were awarded with a powerful odour! The flatulent smell of sulphur. The way up,…
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