Josephharrison1990

LATEST ARTICLES ( 823 )

• 2014-2017: The Road To China...

  

  After graduating with honours I was not prepared for the journey ahead of me, taking a road less travelled before wasn't easy but what really is in this life? Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Shenyang's Korean Connection...

  

  Striding back to my hotel the next morning feeling slightly worse for wear, my second full day of sightseeing wasn't going to be wasted! Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Serving Up... Shenyang, China!

  

  Shenyang called me, leaving Harbin West Railway Station by high speed train on the last day of January 2017 I was ready to see my second 'off the radar' city... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Harbin: Snow Sculptures, Siberian Tigers & Ice Festivals...

  

  Harbin was serving everything that I wanted and more during that Spring Festival 2017 trip, I was just about to embark on my private tour that would take me to... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Harbin's Frozen Riverside...

  

  Harbin tested me beyond the point of crazy, the weather plummeted down to a toe-curling minus twenty-six degrees below freezing. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Harbin: China's Russian Secrets...

  

  Chinese New Year came around again, I decided after the warmth of HK, Macau and Guangzhou that I wanted to experience somewhere in the far north of China for... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Chinese Spring Festival 2016

  

  China doesn't do Christmas so it brings the big guns out during the annual Chinese New Year celebrations, experiencing my first Chinese Spring Festival took me... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• China: The Wildcard Cities!

  

  Following the crowd is boring, dealing three of China's wildcard cities showed me how to be a travel trailblazer! Bowing down to the favourites like Shanghai an... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Teaching English: Semester One, Second Year!

  

  I can't believe where the time has gone?! It only seems like a moment since I returned to work after the summer break! The first semester of my second year at... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Wuhan: My Favourite Things...

  

  Wuhan has been my home since July 2015, this Central Chinese city definitely has its moments but I want to focus on some of my favourite things. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Place Like Lijiang

  

  Back on the travelling hype I boarded another K train from Dali to Lijiang, Yunnan. I was excited to be staying within Lijiang Old Town, leaving Dali on... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Darling Dali...

  

  Kunming had shown me what it had to serve, I was ready to board my first long distance train in China to Dali. My second destination of my 2016 Christmas holida... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Kunming, China: City of Flowers

  

  Kunming wasn't a bad decision! I negotiated that contract to secure my Christmas holiday for 2016's festivities. Yunnan called me, I didn't need to leave the... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 18 Months In China...

  

  Could I call China home? I have now been living and working in China for eighteen months, the time is zooming past me but this experience keep on surprising me! Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 2016: Nonstop November!

  

  November has so far been nonstop, quite literally I don't know if this month will ever end! I was ordered to move out of my apartment, worked a weekend and... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Hankou Weekender...

  

  I don't do best friends but when I got to know Fiona Dade I had to re-evaluate that train of thought. Leaving my Guanggu location I spent another amazing weeken... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 26: Happy Birthday!

  

  I am another year older, does that mean I will get any wiser? Anyhow, I recently celebrated by twenty-sixth birthday in China for the second time! Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• China: The Best of Three...

  

  Oh, I could give a million reasons why any of the following Chinese cities are my top three since arriving in June 2015. Ranging from Giant Pandas, Terracotta... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• This Departure Lounge of Dreams

  

  Life is sometimes all about waiting so I like to look at things as if I was waiting in a departure lounge waiting for a flight. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Jinan, China: Shandong's Spring City

  

  Boarding my High Speed train, Jinan was on my radar! Speeding toward Shandong's Spring City was all I could think about, seeking a mountain and spring was on... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL