山东人最突出的、也是全国人认可的一个性格特点是：耿直、忠厚.

I was wondering what happened to Yan, especially after her backer Guo was jailed for fraud.

Retracing Kingdon-Ward’s steps is more of a challenge because he travelled in more restricted areas of Tibet and across borders into Burma and India. Also he didn’t document his tracks as thoroughly as Rock, eg with maps. But it would be amazing to retrace his expeditions!

This is the key test for news organizations. How to report when official positions are taken over by zealots, cranks & fanatics with no interest in the truth. You can’t just quote their obvious lies as facts, you have to report that they are making false claims. The WaPo and SMH have failed the test

Be Bop Deluxe from Wakefield. Spiders from Mars from Hull ... and Leeds has the Wedding Present? Dave Gedge is a Manc.

Surprising how many people are still unaware of packrafts. Some bikers I met couldn’t understand how I had the kayak in the front bag and the camping gear in the back

One of the key observations from my bike ride up the Yellow River was the scale of reforestation. This was particularly notable in the arid loess plateau regions of Shanxi through to Ningxia