Friday 30 August 2019
Wednesday 28th. August 2019 - TieXiQu, Shenyang
We were just leaving the park after table tennis when someone stopped us and asked me take part in a promotional video. There is a group lobbying the local council for improvements to the table tennis playing surface and they think adding an international flavor to the request for park improvements can do no harm so I went back to show them my form ...……………………………………………..
Tuesday 27 August 2019
Sunday 25 August 2019
Thursday 22 August 2019
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Tuesday, 20th August 2019 - TieXiQu, Shenyang
Oh my goodness at last! I have discovered Chinese table tennis tables in the park 400m from home!
Monday, 19th August, 2019 - TieXiQu, Shenyang
This is the corner of the street on which I live and the South Korean BBQ restaurant is just behind me
Sunday 18 August 2019
Friday 16 August 2019
Thursday 15 August 2019
Thursday, 15th August, 2019 - Shenyang, China
Hungry Ghost Festival is indeed today and so tomorrow it will be too late for YingYing to burn out on the streets with the others...…….
Wednesday 14 August 2019
Wednesday, 14th August 2019 - Shenyang, China
Shenyang is catching the tail-end of Typhoon Lekima and it has been raining here non-stop since I arrived back
Tuesday 13 August 2019
Saturday 10 August 2019
Friday 9 August 2019
Thursday 8th August, 2019 - Anadoluhisari, Istanbul
We left Heybeliada early after breakfast
That night, dinner with Faik. I first met Faik on the same student camp where I had met Fuat in 1980
Wednesday 7th August, 2019 - Heybeliada Beach&Resort
In hope of an enchanting experience on the other side of the island, we took the boat after breakfast
We went round the other side of the island to find that we had arrived accidentally in Bodrum
By 2o'clock lunchtime we had had enough but there was no boat service until 6o'clock. Help!!!
Tuesday 6th August 2019 - Heybeliada, Marmara Sea, Turkey
At the Bostanci ferry terminal waiting for the boat to Heybeliada
Lunch on Heybeliada
Monday 5 August 2019
Sunday 4th August, 2019 - Princes' Islands, Sea of Marmara
In the morning, Mert and I went down to Bostanci and met Seymar, Efe and Fuat and stopped at the Red Bull Ucus Gunu to see the start of the 'build a manpowered plane and fall off the pier in an attempt at flight' competition...…………………………………………………………..
Then motored out for a day in the Princes' Islands...………………………………………………
Saturday 3rd August, 2019 - Beskitas, Istanbul
Mert stayed over last night and in the morning we drove to his apartment and I spent time there while he was at work. Later we took a taxi down to Uskudar to go over to the European side...…………….
Mert wanted to show me some night life in Besiktas, home of the Number One football team in Turkey and Number Two in the whole world...………………………………………………….
Friday 2nd August, 2019 - Anadolu Kavagi, Istanbul
Niyazi stayed over last night - a boys trip out, we decided to take the ferry boat up to Anadolu Kavagi
On the way to Anadolu Kavagi we called into many ports on the Asian side of the Bosphorus
Thursday 1 August 2019
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