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Sunday morning end of July. Travel guides open trying to be motivated to plan what to do in Beijing and Shanghai. My glimpse of motivation fades away questioning what am I doing here at all. After writing some flash cards with Mandarin vocabulary yesterday in the evening I felt more like Sisyphos and less like…
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Diving into Singapore and China I started using a well-known strategy I am very much in favour of: reading books. Not sure really about where to start and after a bit of research I landed with the above shown pile. A mixture between between classic travel guides, memoirs (Lee Kuan Yew, Kissinger, Schmidt) and introduction…
