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We left Nanging on a Thursday in a night train direction Beijing, packed with Chinese businessmen and students.
The train car was clean and modern but a little cramped, with six bunker beds per compartment, three on each side, we could hardly move and had to take times to get changed and to climb to our [...]

Nanging is known for two main things. One is the massacre of its habitants at the hands of the Japanese during the WWII and the other is the Purple Mountain.
Although the first one was of the calibre of the Jewish exterminations in Nazi Germany maybe not in the numbers but definitely in horror quality and [...]

From Hagzhou, a bus took us to Xitang, one of the water villages, a four-hours journey.
As Minwen advised us, we got there in the evening, when the houses and restaurants paper lanterns are lit up and reflect in the channels’ waters creating a mysterious atmosphere.

Two days after arriving in Shanghai we headed to Hangzhou where we stayed with Cammie and Jackie, our American friends, in one of their Chinese Normal University foreign teachers’ flat, very flash to be China.
There we learned a bit about being a Chinese student. Being an only child, there is no other sibling with whom [...]

I’m sad to say that although I really try hard to keep my mind opened and unpolluted with other people’s opinions, experiences and prejudices about the different countries, in the case of China, it was completely impossible.
Maybe that trip of Hector to Hong Kong years ago, from which he came back telling about the pushy [...]