China.

I am just back from an epic trip to China to visit our son Joe. We travelled from Shanghai across China to the Tibetan plateau and back again. It was exhausting, wonderful and eye opening . There were only a handful of foreigners on the whole trip west and the further west we got the more the landscape became less known, less knowable – higher, broader, wilder with mountains in all directions. Local people wanted to take our photos which felt novel and odd but they were pleased to meet us and the differences between the more rural traditional landscapes and the new urban construction were stark. A fabulous trip. Need a month to recover 🙂