Those who know me will know that I can recount more than my share of what are commonly known as ‘ghost experiences’. …
China
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In Nanjing I waited for the Goldilocks time, not too cold, not too hot – to walk the entire Nanjing City Walls. The …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
‘Woman with nails in both sides of skull’ – the Nanjing Massacre Memorial
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleArguably, the most shocking part of Iris Chang’s book ‘The Rape Of Nanking’, comes in its Epilogue. During my 12 months living …
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A small claim to fame….Last year I found some little dinosaur footprints in China, and the resulting paper has just been published …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 24 – the Mysterious Vanishing Sushi Shop
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIt happens so often. I chance across a place in a city – then fruitlessly search high and low for it again. …
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Boring weekends, I’d sometimes head around the block to a little bakery in Danfeng St. I’d pick up a little selection of …
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Ah, the eternal quest for a kiwi in China to find …. cheese. I foraged far and wide, and finally, one evening, …
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Everyone warned me about Chinese New Year in Nanjing. I listened, sure, but I guess I couldn’t believe that it would be …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 18 – noodles below the supermarket
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI have an innate hatred of supermarkets. The faster I can get in and out of them, the better. But the big …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 19 – vegetarian at the Jiming Temple
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jiming temple is our neighbour at NIGPAS ( the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology). I can see them out my …

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