The Great Wall In the morning of our third day in Beijing we made our trip to the Great Wall, which we did as part of a group organised by our hostel that we booked the day before. The coach from the hostel left at 8am, and stopped at several hostels before heading out of […]

On my 29th birthday, the first thing on my mind was ‘next year, I’m going to be 30!’ I’ve never considered myself deeply concerned about my age, and always thought that if youth is what you are trading on, you’re going to be in trouble. But I did feel that 30 was a landmark, that […]