Slowing Down
I’ve discovered that I’m a bit of a hypocrite. While I love and wholly subscribe to the idea that travelling slowly is preferable to travelling quickly, I’ve been whisking my […]
Tag Archives: Travel
A Detour & Mapo Tofu
For the first time since university, I have a proper backpacking trip coming up – six weeks across northwest China – in order to update a guidebook. I’ll be heading […]
The Science of Travelling Light
Eurgh – packing lists. I generally shun them as indicative of control-freakery, but given that my own packing is reduced to putting everything in a big pile, adding some things […]
The Art of Travelling Light
Luggage is a fact of life. Whether you’re going to a friend’s house for the weekend or on a six-month long expedition across the steppes of Central Asia, you’ll need […]
Five things not to do in Cheung Chau
As some of you may have gathered, Little Yak recently moved from Hong Kong Island to Cheung Chau. For the uninitiated, Cheung Chau is a small island about an hour […]
Tibet Travel Permits – An Introduction
Travelling to Tibet is a dream for many people. The legend of a high-up, far-away and closed-off kingdom ruled by monks that developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries […]
Little Yak is travelling…
I’m in Yunnan at the moment, doing a mini road-trip and visiting old haunts and friends en route – lots of fun, but very little time to write anything. So, […]
Learning to Cook & Garlicky Greens
While I’ve been living in China and Hong Kong for almost seven years, I still can’t really cook Chinese food. Earlier this month, while trawling Hong Kong’s supermarkets for pickled […]
Tourism, Slow Travel & Little Yak
I haven’t written about this before, but my trip to Guizhou earlier this month did not turn out as expected. On my previous two trips to Zhaoxing, I had seen […]
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