OK, enough fanciful dreaming of eastern adventures, time to put facts into action. Here is my proposed route. It keeps changing so if I blog from Utar Pradesh, don't be alarmed.
The stars denote the main cities I plan to pass through or visit at length or indeed just have the misfortune of being on en route:
Cardiff - London - Brussels - Cologne - Warsaw - Moscow - Ulan Bator - Beijing - Xian - Chongqing - Guangzhou - Shanghai (via a visit to Nanjing) - and finally Lianyungang where I will be living and teaching. I have given myself around six weeks to get to my final destination. If I have the time and money I will also try to visit Japan but at the moment it's looking too expensive and also for reasons I cannot disclose, it may not please my good friend, Ros.
