For any readers about to attend or considering making a reservation at Ultraviolet, this is your spoiler alert – do not read any further. A few years ago, a travel company in Yorkshire set-up a holiday scheme whereby guests could stay in a hotel decorated in the style of a particular country. Each day they … Continue reading
“Can I take your photo? We don’t normally see white people at these events” asked the photographer at Saturday’s Bacardi sponsored (i.e., free) evening at the Mao Livehouse. How to describe… A room full of (mostly) Chinese people all drinking Bacardi Breezers, with a woman on stilts walking around topping up everyone’s bottles with more … Continue reading
Why pay for expensive paintings or photographs with which to decorate your bar when you could instead affix empty eggshell cartons to the wall. Or maybe a little polystyrene packaging. This in keeping with the bar pump “just for show” and the world’s wonkiest darts. But since this was the only bar available to us … Continue reading
For those who know me well; do not worry. What follows is not an account of some kind of spiritual awakening, nor is it an attempt to connect with my inner self (or even my middle self, content and paunch-like as it is). And as such, If I do ever utter* anything even vaguely akin … Continue reading
The months of October and November represent hairy cab season in Shanghai. Farmed in speciality lakes between Shanghai and Suzhou, the crabs draw vast crowds of visitors from neighbouring provinces. On Saturday, our Marketing Team arranged a coach trip to experience them first hand, along with a visit to a couple of local scenic spots. … Continue reading
Late in the evening, pouring with rain, dark and foggy; I’m grateful we couldn’t see much through the coach window as we gradually ascended towards our Moganshan country house. I’m not sure how the coach driver could see much either but he got us there somehow. Moganshan is a mountain (719 metres high) about 200km … Continue reading
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