Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

I want to do a full Wuhan/Spring Festival round-up, but I lost the card reader for the digital camera, so I’ll have to hold off until I can find another way to transfer my photos to the laptop. In the meantime, I do have a few photos to work with, so here goes:

They invented gunpowder, […]

It’s Spring Festival time in China, when just about anyone who can manage it heads back home to spend time with the family. I’m headed out too, to the beautiful city of Wuhan, so I won’t be around for a few days. I’m sure I’ll be back with photos and stories, though, so check back […]

My walk to work in the morning takes me past a subway station, a light rail station, a long-distance bus station and several local bus stops, not to mention the Beijing North train station that’s a few blocks away. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of foot traffic in the area, making it an […]

It’s cold in Beijing these days, though not as cold as it should be — it’s been an unseasonably warm winter, with only a few bitter cold days, and no snow to speak of since Thanksgiving. But it’s still cold enough to freeze most of the canals and lakes around town, including Houhai (literally translated, […]

I’ve been fascinated by the photos that have been coming back from Mars, as I’m sure many others are. And how can one not marvel at images like this (4MB high-res image here). But did you know that between 1965 and 1983, the Soviet Union sent 12 probes and landers to Venus, a much less […]