Blog Tag - Talking Travel

Talking Travel: No-seat Trains at Line 10, Test Flights at Daxing Airport, and E-bikes Crackdown
Trains on subway Line 10 remove seats in order to carry more passengers Line 10, as one of the busiest subway lines in Beijing carries 1 million-...
Exploring Huangshan and Off-the-Beaten-Track Anhui Province
Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), known locally as “the birthplace of Chinese tourism,” was formed over 100 million years ago, and is the backdrop for...
Ditch Beijing This May Holiday for One of China's Many Music Festivals
It's sad to say, but it’s looking more and more likely that Beijing will be sitting on the bench this May Day festival season. We had an inkling that...
Beijing Bucket List: Exploring Beijing to Its Fullest
It’s easy to be content in our expat bubbles, as the staples of Western convenience become more and more commonplace in every corner of the city. But...
New High-Speed Rail Route Cuts Travel Beijing-Qingdao Time to Under 3 Hours
It's the age-old question: The weekend rapidly approaches so should you a) pack a bag and head to Tianjin for a weekend "getaway" or b) suck it up...
Is This What It Feels Like to Finally Be an Expat?
As dozens of adults from around the globe sipped Coronas in a Sanlitun bar, pretending to know the lyrics to some Spanish pop song, I looked around,...
Get Out: Serene Gardens and Meandering Waterways Await with a Short Break in Suzhou and Tongli
As the old saying goes, “above there is heaven; below, there is Suzhou and Hangzhou” (上有天堂 下有苏杭 shàng yǒu tiāntáng xià yǒu sū háng), referring to the...
Kyoto: A Short Break in the Thousand-Year Capital
As Japan’s most beautiful city, and former capital of the Land of the Rising Sun for more than one thousand years, it’s hard to sum up the cultural...
Exploring Dragon’s Peak Lodge, “The Most Haunted House in Hong Kong”
Burbex has lived in China since 2004, but even he is not immune to the wiles of the Public Security Bureau, who have this week sent him to Hong Kong...
Tired of Beijing Winter? Sail Away to the Philippines
Betty is tired. She’s officially listed on the manifest as “sea dog,” but she has been more than that. Mascot. Champion diver. Connoisseur of grilled...
Freezing Your Bum Off: World-Renowned Harbin Ice Festival 2019 Is Now On
Figuring out how to escape Beijing's cold is always a challenge, but one way to escape it is to completely freeze your limbs off in what is basically...
Opening of Daxing Airport Means Relocation of Airline Carriers, a New Subway Line, and Closure of Beijing Nanyuan
Airline Carriers Given Option to Relocate to New Daxing Airport We're nearing ever closer to the grand opening of Beijing's new Daxing "mega" ...
Save Hundreds of Renminbi on Plane Tickets With This One Simple Travel Hack
While we love living in Beijing as much as the next person, there's no denying that sometimes it does a soul good to take a quick getaway from the...
7 Reasons Why Macau is a Great Option for a Christmas Getaway
As the festive season rolls around once more, many expat residents in China begin wondering how to spend their Yuletide. Not everyone has the chance...
Nagasaki A History Interwoven With Trade and Tragedy
The name Nagasaki will always be synonymous with the dropping of the second atomic bomb at the end of World War II on Aug 9, 1945, and although that...