Excuses, excuses

Hello everyone.
You may have noticed something recently.
Namely that we are rarely here.
It's been 17 days since our last post.
Unforgiveable.
The major reason is that Caroline is currently doing 2 full time jobs and I think I am fluctuating somewhere around 1.5
Between this and our continuing attempts to eat, drink, walk and visit our way around China; regular blogging has taken a bit of a blow.

So consider this a taster, I'll be back with a substantial post with pictures and everything at the weekend.
Also, that little box over to the right contains my tweets, which some people crappily refer to a micro-blogging. They do give a very brief but up-to-date reflection of my observations and thoughts on a day to day basis.

So at the weekend you can expect musings which may or may not be related to:
- Mutianyu
- Dalian
- What rich Chinese kids think of poor Chinese kids
- What Chinese kids think of the colonial history of Africa and Fair trade
- Whether Spring has hit Beijing
- How excited we are to have booked flights to Yangshuo

These and other exciting topics will be covered in the next post.
Now off to meet Caroline who has agreed to give a guest lecture to my students about the EU. Then this evening, we are attending a book chat with this fellow