As I write this (later to be typed) I’m sitting 507 steep steps on top of a karst hill in Guilin’s Seven Stars Park. My Ventolin has had a workout and I’m buggered. When I arrived in Guilin, I wasn’t too impressed. It seemed to me to be a typical ugly Chinese city in beautiful [...]
Archive | January, 2011
Back in the saddle again
When I said goodbye to the rest of the family in Shanghai, it hit me – I was on my own in a foreign country, a situation I hadn’t found myself in since my jaunt around Japan and Korea in mid-2008. And at least in Japan I knew the language. I was once again a [...]
The Melbourne of China
Yes, I know it’s a big call but hear me out. Putting aside population, I am calling Shanghai the Melbourne of China. What do you do in Shanghai? Well, you eat, shop, look at nice old buildings, attend events (such as the World Expo) and get distracted by cool gimmicks like the 431 km/hr Maglev [...]
Capital culture
The Beijing of 2008 was obsessed with the Olympics and building things. The Beijing of 2011 is obsessed with security, and building things. If you’re unaware that Beijing is the capital of China before you arrive, you can’t be forgiven for thinking that after just a short wander around the place. The army and security [...]
Nice wheels
A couple of years ago in Vietnam, I wondered what was going to happen to the traffic when one day, everyone sold their motorbikes and bought a nice new shiny car. Well, that day has come in Xi’an, and it’s downright scary. The traffic in Xi’an was ridiculous, and we managed to spy six individual [...]
Asian Vegas
First of all, thank you to Paul for publishing this post for me. I’m now in China, where they don’t like my SIM card, Facebook, Twitter or Blogger. For the next few weeks I’ll be writing this blog and then having to email it to the Netherlands to be published! But rewind to Macau for [...]
The opposite of a heatwave
Well, I am back in Hong Kong. Not only am I back in Hong Kong, seemingly my Asian home away from home, I am back blogging. And I will be doing so for much of this year, after landing possibly the best job in the world, a tour guide. I am in cold Hong Kong, [...]
About me
I'm Caitlyn, a twenty-something Australian living in the Netherlands. Six years ago I crammed my life into a backpack affectionately called 'the Beast' and hit the road, anxious to see all the world's Olympic sites. Needless to say, I got a bit distracted along the way. Today I'm a tour guide in Europe, and blog about what I love; travel, sport and food.
I’m in: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
