Ambulando

Topic: describe Guangzhou Composition: do you remember the starting scenes of the movie Blues Brothers with the pan on Chicago, with the smog, the chimneys and the skyscrapers? Well, that is Guangzhou. Without the Blues.

… from a burger king. It is not easy coming back “home” at 3 in the morning, after a busy night spent drinking beer in a unlicensed bar’s terrace and ending talking about opening a bar in Tahilandia with an Italian bio-engineer in a corner of a hidden square in central Hong Kong. Even if […]

Beijing at 4.30 in the morning. A misty light reveals the city profile and it could be easily New York now. Food stalls at the corners of the streets sell breakfast of dumplings and kebabb and tea. Chinese girls search for taxis or any ride home. Chinese girls wear mini skirts and short very short […]

So, Biejing got a night life. And a rich one, it looks to me. The first time I cames, two weeks ago, with my French equipe, our night life was limited to be ripped off in a overpriced bar (80 YUAN for a beer! average price is 10), a sleepy night in a small bar […]

There is a saying about peyote. They say that, once you find one, you will see all the others around. But not before you have found that first one. I do not know how much true is this, I firmly believes in magic of the desert, but I never went searching for peyote. When in […]

So at least I fix one of my problems. I had to bite a bitter morsel and make a little compromise for my flyless trip, but at the end I would be in Hong Kong on time for my flight to Europe. I booked a flight to Shenzen and from there I can reach Hong […]

my trip got a huge blow yesterday! The agency in Singapore told me that all the passenger service are suspended from Singapore. The only other way to get to Australia by boat it is to embark in China or South Corea or Taiwan. It means at the end it could not be possible for me […]

Electric Scooter you do not see them. you do not hear them. but there they are. silent. waiting for you. they are shaolin monks in disguise. they leave no marks on the sand. they hit when you are off guard. they are at your back. and they beep. suddenly. and you jump.