Category: Travel

Night Shopping Circus

I think the Atrium City shopping street in Qingdao is meant to be experienced at night. It seemed pretty dead when I visited in midday...

Good News and Bad News

No, this doesn’t mean I’m done posting pictures of China. I’m just remembering the old story about how good and bad fortune aren’t always easy...

Hello MixC

As luck would have it, the largest MixC shopping mall in China had just opened in Qingdao a couple weeks before our arrival. It was...

Bookish Mural

China is better known for sprawling developments of faceless apartment towers, and for good reason: there are miles of them in every city. But Qingdao...

A Star (Magnolia)

“It looks like Scotland!” is a joke in my family. In Long Way Round, whenever Ewan McGregor is impressed, he says, “It’s beautiful! It looks...