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After China, I am slowly re-entering London life, and I am delighted to highlight the premiere showing at 9.30pm tonight, Wednesday, on Sky Arts 2 HD of our new production Samuel Beckett: Not I. The 45-minute film features a more
After China, I am slowly re-entering London life, and I am delighted to highlight the premiere showing at 9.30pm tonight, Wednesday, on Sky Arts 2 HD of our new production Samuel Beckett: Not I. The 45-minute film features a more
Stupidly, I seem to hurt the a tendon in my left leg, and this has meant that I have been hobbling around Shanghai for these final two days of our holiday. We have nonetheless been up a very tall building, more
If I push the point a bit I can make this post a tale of two movies. Monday night we watched White House Down in a state-of-the-art cinema in Hangzhou, while last night we saw part of a classic black-and-white more
Saturday we spent in Ningbo, another major city in southern China that very few tourists visit. We came here because our son Nicholas has been studying here over the past year for a MA in International Business. He has been more
Thursday afternoon we flew from Xi'an to Wenzhou, which is a southern port city that's not on most tourist itineraries. Indeed it does not even rate so much as a mention in the Rough Guide to China, but more
We spent Wednesday in Xi'an, partly because we wanted a quieter day with less travelling than we have enjoyed over the past week. I'm also struggling with a head cold which seems a bit unfair, but nonetheless our time continues of more
So is it permitted to acknowledge that one is just a teensy bit underwhelmed by what is reputed to be one of the great sites - and sights - of the ancient world? We have been in Xi'an since Monday more
Since Saturday afternoon we have been in Pingyao, from where we leave on Monday morning to fly to Xi'an. Pingyao is quite wonderful and like nowhere else I have been before, as is the Yide Hotel where more
Friday afternoon, towards the end of the first week of our China holiday. We are in Datong in the north of the country, not so far from Beijing. In the late fifth century CE (around the time of the last more
I'm a little uncertain about whether to contribute this post. After all, I'm off on a family holiday and not travelling for Illuminations. Mostly when I have done Postcards from foreign climes before I have been filming or researching or more