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Travel
Stories of my travels around the world.
Shanghai International Beer Festival
In its third year running, Shanghai has been running a beer festival on Wharf 86. With a great view of the Bund you can listen to live music and drink the best beer China has to offer.
Petit Cat Cafe
One night we were wandering around Xintiandi and found ourselves on NonChang road, where we almost walked past the Petit Cat Cafe. A sign on the road points the way into a small alleyway.
Ordos
Ordos is know as one of China’s “ghost cities”. It was built with the intention of housing millions of people, instead it only houses thousands. If you’ve lived in China for a while, Ordos is strange.
在内蒙古吃羊肉
While in Inner Mongolia we had the opportunity to try Mongolian food. It was pretty expensive for Chinese food but we were in the middle of nowhere and pretty damn hungry so the only place we could find was this tourist trap.
Mausoleum of Genghis Kahn
Near the city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia can be found the Mausoleum of Genghis Kahn. This is not the resting place of Genghis Kahn, since it is unknown where his remains actually lie. Rather, it is a collection of his treasures and a holy place.
Dive Bar Graffiti Artist
There’s a dive bar near my place of work in Shanghai known as C’s (not sure what the C stands for.). In my first month in Shanghai I went there with my girlfriend where she taught me the infamous DICE GAME that rattles across many pubs in China.
A Conversation in Transit
The second time I left the country came at a point where the project I was working on at the time (Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising) got an extension.
Safe Flight
I forgot to mention in my posts prior to Amsterdam that flying to Schiphol was the first time I had ever been on a commercial flight.
I was alone.
I was nervous.
10 Things I Did in Brighton
Brighton is a city that feels extremely ‘touristy’, yet at the same time is an amazing part of the country that has it’s own unique culture. You’ll meet punks, eat vegetarian (well maybe not, but you can), relax on a rock beach and get drunk watching live music.