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I Hate Crowds: Travelling in China During National Holidays

I Hate Crowds: Travelling in China During National Holidays

  I really do hate crowds. Crowds make me want to hit people or queue jump just to escape from the queue (because in China, some queues are so vast and switchbacky that to get out you have to go forward). I don’t like noise. 

(101 Things About Shanghai) Same, ‘cept different

(101 Things About Shanghai) Same, ‘cept different

It’s deceptively shiny and new and almost Western here (and by Western, I mean, it’s all about the shiny, the new, the casually bilingual, the commercial and the branded). We are waiting for our flight to Guilin at the Hongqiao airport and a few cracks