Change in Chinese Visa requirements

As of yesterday the requirements for applying for a Chinese visa became a bit stricter according to the Embassy of The People’s Republic of China in the United Kingdom of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Beijing Olympic and The Tibetan Freedom torches meet in London

When the official Beijing Olympic Torch reaches London on Sunday, 6 April, The Tibetan Freedom Torch will also arrive in the capital.

What a Pigsty!

If you’re squeamish, this may be the time to look away, because we’re back on the subject of toilets and diarrhoea in this third and final anecdote in my mini-series of less glamorous travel experiences in China.

My Coffee Ordeal in Kunming

If I still have any readers left after the disgusting start to my mini-series of less glamorous travel experiences in China, then you’re about to be rewarded for your bravery with an anecdote with no mention whatsoever of toilets!

Diarrhoea on the Yangzi

As I wrote on Friday in Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer I’ll be telling you about a few of my not so glamorous travel experiences in China over the next few days.

Was it a Baiji Dolphin?

Just a quick update to my post, The Baiji Dolphin is No More, of 13 December 2006.

We may not have seen the last of the dolphin after all.

Good News for Olympic Family Tour Beijing

I have just heard good news from Antonio Marino and his family.

BOCOG has backed down and are now allowing all five family members on the promised tour.

Winning Olympic Family told to leave two members at home

When I wrote last week that something about the “Olympic Families Tour Beijing” campaign smelt foul, I had no idea just how foul!

“Olympic Families Tour Beijing” update

I wrote about the “Olympic Families Tour Beijing” campaign back in April. A competition in which your family could win a tour of Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai and Hong Kong prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Relay of provocation

I resisted writing about the 2008 Olympic torch relay route, when it was announced yesterday in Beijing as the “Journey of Harmony”. I resisted, not because I found the route less of a provocation yesterday, but because I expected nothing less of China.