“We’re married” she said to the novice with the tattoos and the orange robe. Buddhist novice monks in Laos usually start in their early teens but he’d waited until he was 32. Carrie didn’t know if an unmarried couple… Is immoral to lie to a monk?
Hong Kong is part of China, but it’s not. It’s a ‘special administrative zone’ of China (as are Taiwan and Macau, I think). The Chinese from the mainland need a visa to get here, we British don’t… Same but different
We arrived in Shanghai after a night in a hard sleeper. The hard sleeper was 2 bunk beds 3 high in each compartment. We got in the train late evening and were woken up by… Shanghai to Ping’an