I didn’t have a lot of plans for Busan. I basically just wanted to have a rest and eat a lot. Both of which I managed to do. I also had a brief stroll along the beach but it wasn’t exactly an idyllic location for relaxation. After a couple of nights in the city it…
As long as you kept to the cycle paths in Seoul riding there was a dream as the routes they had through the city were well thought out and well maintained in general. Luckily the friend I was staying with lived very close to a canal with a cycle path running by it that intersected…
Rolling off the ferry into Qingdao I was immediately struck by how much less polluted the city seemed to be, being on the coast helps I guess. Qingdao was also a quite unusual city by Chinese standards maintaining a lot of its own individual character. Part of this character is informed by its history as…
I’d come to Tai’an with one purpose: to climb Tai Shan, considered to be China’s holiest mountain and which has been worshipped since the 11th Century BC. It has been climbed by countless emperors and other important people from Chinese history including Mao Zedong. Soon it would be honoured by my ascent, I hoped anyway,…
Riding ROUND 