A story about the recent heat wave on Chinese TV was illustrated by shots of women in Beijing, Xi’An and other cities wearing hot pants and miniskirts to stay cool. Indeed, contemporary Chinese women are as chic and hot/cool as their European counterparts when it comes to fashion. And young Chinese men
Is The Idiot the only person who has to constantly remind himself that in China EVERYTHING – not just the Great Wall, the Himalaya, Tiananmen Square and the population – is very BIG? Just take a look at the extremes to which China has gone to make the rest of us feel
The Idiot accompanied a high-level-under-the-radar delegation from the European Union on a MedTrekking visit to the Great Wall of China this weekend. [caption id=”attachment_1125″ align=”aligncenter” width=”600″ caption=”Why did the Idiot greet a
….when I head there later today to “MedTrek” on the Great Wall, take the high-altitude train to Lhasa and climb around Tibet? Because the following email, forwarded to me by a traveling companion, encouraged me to buy a bag of plastic chopsticks at the local Dollar Tree store. I’ll bet Odysseus would
“All men have need of the gods,” Homer wrote in “The Odyssey,” the world’s first travel narrative that inspired my humble walking adventure around the Mediterranean Sea. One delightful aspect of MedTrekking over 7,000 kilometers is my frequent meetings with gods, goddesses, sea nymphs, warriors, villains, heroes, sorceresses and other supernatural, semi-supernatural
My son Luke, one of many MedTrekkers featured in my book “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean,” has hiked more kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea with me than anyone else. His day job as an actor in Hollywood
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