Ni hao true believers! This is the third installment in the spring festival series and this time adventurer/explorer Alex Kidd finds himself as the 'man out of time' in Shanghai. By that I mean Shanghai was extremely modern, full of English speakers and closer to Barcelona than Beijing. I was a man out of my time as I was used to the quaintness of Fukang and the dusty desert plains of Xinjiang but here I found myself in one of the business capitals of the world w...

Ni hao True believers! Once again it's time for our hero to travel across the great and mighty land of China and this time he finds himself in Harbin: the ice, northern landscape found just above North Korea and Just below Russia. A bit of background for Harbin; for a long time it was a disputed territory between China and Russia known as Manchuria. Due to this the town has a major Russian influence as well as many Russian people. It is also world renowned for ho...

Ni hao true believers! And welcome back to my Spring festival Beijing blog. This one picks up directly were the last one finishes so If you haven't read 'Spring festival: Beijing part one' then get a move on and do so! Let the fun times roll: The next day most people were too tired to get out of bed however myself, Tim and Ed were up and ready to go explore Beijing and decided to take the subway out to the Olympic stadium and park. Once we arrived we wandered do...

This is the second of my quadrilogy of more serious and sentimental blogs. Once again it's time for me to reflect on my time in China and look back on the past three months, see what's changed and write about the future. So, once again, I ask you go read my first ever blog followed by the blog 'The first milestone: Three months' so that like I you can get a true feeling for how my journey has been shaping me. First I would like to just say it is ridiculous i'm e...

Ni hao true believers! Welcome back to the exciting adventures of Alex Kidd in China. These next set of blogs, dare I say it, will be documenting the most exciting and awe inspiring part of my journey in China thus far; Spring festival. I was given a six week holiday with complete reign of where I went, what I could do and who I could interact with and along the way I have been culminating a huge collection of stories the likes of which will be irritating my frie...