Travelling

[Jassassino]

How is China @Jassassino? I hope you've secured lots of Mixue Mascot weebls for me, xiexie!

It's going well! It really is a great country with delicious and cheap food. Insane how a phone is so vital to just about everything here in comparison to ten years back, but being in Nanjing now, it feels like the core of what I always felt was there about the country is still so present. It's nice tbh.

Shanghai was wonderful, felt the most like a mix of Tokyo/Osaka of any place I've been to, but then it throws a spanner in the works with that with random streets lined with French houses and buildings and a lot of Art Deco NYC styled plazas and buildings dotted between, think it's been my favourite spot so far.

Hiked up a mountain today to Foding Palace, a massive Buddhist temple complex, really welcome retreat from cities I've been in a lot. The hike was nice, but our mates out there did warn (and accurately so) me of how hikes in China are nothing like Europe, with a lot of infrastructure to guide you and enable it - it's a mixed bag, it definitely makes it easier, but a 7km walk in 26/27° heat is already a demanding task, so it's a strange choice and does take you out of the trek. But it was still nice. Some pics of today:















Also, Mi Xu E?? I've never even heard of them!