England to China by bicycle - and back again

Saturday 10th September 2005. Jiakou, Zhejiang, China Starting to rediscover what distance really means in China. No longer is Huangshan jus...

Friday 9th September 2005. Changle, Zhejiang, China. All along road people, old grandmothers especially, are stripping bamboo with bea...

8th September 2005. Huzhou, Zhejiang, China On the TV, Beijing beat Shanghai on aggregate, after extra time, last night. Breakfast: bananas ...

7th September 2005. Jin Ze, China. Sit for a Russian-style farewell with Aliona. Leaving hurts; I feel tight-throated. Ride the way I seem t...

Zhutang, Yunnan province, China. 11th January 2006. Laoban at hotel is a nice bloke with one arm. He shares the vice of many by wanting to e...

The first in what I hope may become a series of snippets from my diary. 12th January 2006. Shang Yun, Yunnan province, China Funny little ho...

You may have seen Jonathan Watts writing in The Guardian yesterday about the Three Gorges of the Sky . Here's his opening paragraph: ...

Now that's what I call breakfast -- All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Hotel sign, Dunhuang, Gansu province, China -- All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Camels on the lake shore, Xinjiang, China. -- All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Central market, Almaty, Kazakhstan. All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Carrying pole, Guizhou, China. All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Petrol Station, Guangxi province, China. Copyright (C) Edward Genochio 2006

Musician, Guangxi province, China

Vietnam Sunset

21,542 km from Shanghai, or 42,000 km from Exeter, my bicycle carries me back to Belgium, 29 years and a month or two after having been born...

The hot news is: 1. It's hot. 2. I'm in Lvov (aka Lviv), Ukraine, where it is hot. 3. It's hot. Apologies for lack of blog since...

Chaps, I'm in Uralsk.   Asmund will fill you in on the details, I expect.   Edward

Shymkent. Hot. Cycling. 14,288 km since Shanghai.   Hope you enjoy the new minimalist blogging style. Edward

I apologise for the absence of any photos in the previous post. Here is some clover, which made a nice soft bed for the night on the way to ...