Tomb Sweeping Day (Qingming Festival) - a public holiday where Chinese people visit the burial grounds or cremation centers of their ancestors. Martys Memorial Gardens was my first stop to pay respect to those fallen ones who defended their country when the Japanese invaded. Grave stones, with a small photo of the solider were surrounded by freshly laid flowers. What looked like a locker room to a swimming pool, with wide drawers from floor to ceiling covered e...

Saturday lunch time at People's Park, Shanghai. Welcome to, the marriage market.The noise and crowd, at first I thought we were entering a fruit and vegetable market. Hundreds of personal advertisements, with year of birth, height, education, job and salary, property owned and sometimes a photo, hang from bushes, trees, tops of umbrellas, placed on the ground with stones or clumps of mud and from any wall space possible. This is where online dating comes to life...

CHECKLIST:Experienced one of the most popular activities in China, KTV. The London Taxi Company - Typically black cabs but also blue, purple, red and white that are being shipped all over the world from China. Fengxian is over half an hour outside Songjiang, with many of the migrant workers and locals not knowing much about the Western world. Foreigners have been working at the factory for a few years now but a female foreigner walking around the factory well tha...

"That one please" as I pointed at Wing Chun on the list of martial arts as if I was picking an ice-cream. "Have you done it before?" as he looked Beth and I up and down "Nope!" Well, the reaction on his face told us it wasn't going to be a walk in the park!"I feel like an idiot… Dammit!" said Beth as we tried to copy the stretches of our trainer, Diego and well it didn't improve from there.' I know you're trying to be all mystical and Kung Fu-ey, but… 'Beth h...

"So how is China? What's it like" Is it really a question or just a polite hello? "Erm, where do I start?"China has a population of 1.3 billion citizens' I struggle to the train to make my way home.. oh a million faces pass my way, they're all the same, nothing seems to change anytime I look around.. from walking by a high-rise to a landmark square, you see millions of people with millions of cares.. 'Shanghai is the world's fastest growing ci...