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At the Kim Dae-jung Museum

25th June 2020 Joe Slater 3918 Comments

Mokpo, 2016 When I left the hotel the following morning, the receptionist was away on an errand – she had left the whole establishment unattended. I waited for five minutes, studying the lobby décor. It [more…]

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Slow train to Mokpo

18th June 2020 Joe Slater 3777 Comments

After a month near Suwon studying the language, I felt ready for the road. I didn’t really have a travel plan. I just wanted to see as much of the country as I could over [more…]

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Taiwan’s Tiananmen

4th June 2020 Joe Slater 3107 Comments

In early 2014, I was living in Taiwan. The year is remembered there (and nowhere else) for the so-called “Sunflower” upheaval, an ultimately unsuccessful student protest that was in many ways a precursor to the [more…]

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One Night in Dezhou

30th April 2020 Joe Slater 2754 Comments

In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north via Wuhan. Here, the journey resumes with an unintended stopover in the crappy end of Dezhou, an obscure industrial [more…]

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All change at Shijiazhuang

23rd April 2020 Joe Slater 2601 Comments

In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north via Wuhan. This leg starts at Shijiazhuang, where I discovered the hard way why most Chinese plan their journeys [more…]

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Across Hubei by HSR

9th April 2020 Joe Slater 2859 Comments

In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north via Wuhan. This part starts in Wuhan, from where the high-speed rails led northward from Hubei Province and across [more…]

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Where the river rages

2nd April 2020 Joe Slater 2743 Comments

This is NOT about the Wuhan virus, but it is about Wuhan. In spring 2013, I travelled by train across China from Guangzhou to Qingdao in the north. Wuhan was more or less the middle [more…]

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Gastarbeiter

30th January 2020 Joe Slater 2935 Comments

First a caveat. In the following, there are no commando raids, aristocratic murders, medieval siege engines or scenes of hot sex on a Makati pool table. If that’s you want, scroll straight down to the [more…]

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Lausanne in the rain

16th January 2020 Joe Slater 2028 Comments

Lausanne, 2014 Back in the 1980s, I had been in Switzerland mainly to make a bit of money and “have an experience.” I hadn’t really been too concerned with the politics or culture of what [more…]

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