Seventy: Korean

Seventy: Korean, originally uploaded by meganknight.

I eat well when I travel to Guangzhou. The food is cheap, varied and my colleagues there delight in exploring the various options available. Guangzhou is a major international trade city, so the options are considerably more varied than Chinese. In fact, the local food style, Cantonese, is the one I hardly ever eat when I'm there: it tends to the bland and [forgive me] slimy and is heavily reliant on local fish. I've seen that river, and what goes on upstream, I'm not eating things that live in it.

This is Korean food, a new restaurant in the city, and it was excellent - spicy and crunchy and tangy, just to my liking. And no, that's not raw chicken, it's one of the five or six kinds of cabbage we were served.

Sixty-eight: Bicycles

Sixty-eight: Bicycles, originally uploaded by meganknight.

Bicycles are still a major form of transport in China, especially on university campuses, where students can't have cars and staff seldom bother. Every building has a rack of these outside. The favoured bicycle in China is still a traditional beast,upright with a chain guard, a basket and three gears. Some even have a built-in umbrella holder, a useful addition.

Sixty-nine: thought

Sixty-nine: thought, originally uploaded by meganknight.

The campus in Guangzhou has a large number of sculptures - a garden of them, in fact. My colleagues there joke that they got a job lot of socialist memoriabilia - there are several Marxes (Karls, not the brothers), several Maos, a handful of Chinese heroes (Lao Tzu, Confucius, etc). The effect is rather odd. This knockoff of Rodin is not actually in the sculpture garden itself, but slightly away from it.

Sixty-seven: skyline

Sixty-seven: skyline, originally uploaded by meganknight.

Masaka dosas are a staple food in India, and something I miss a lot. They're a rice pancake (the dosa), thin and crisp, wrapped around a spicy potato filling and served with sambar, a spicy lentil soup, and chutneys (especially coconut chutney). I think I had four in the two and a half days I was in Delhi. This was the last one, from idli.com in the airport food court. Yum.

Sixty-six: dosa

Sixty-six: dosa, originally uploaded by meganknight.

Masaka dosas are a staple food in India, and something I miss a lot. They're a rice pancake (the dosa), thin and crisp, wrapped around a spicy potato filling and served with sambar, a spicy lentil soup, and chutneys (especially coconut chutney). I think I had four in the two and a half days I was in Delhi. This was the last one, from idli.com in the airport food court. Yum.

Sixty-five: monolith

Sixty-five: monolith, originally uploaded by meganknight.

India occasionally reminds you that it had a pretty intimate flirtation with communism over the years. I find it hard to believe this object wasn't at least partially inspired by some kind of totalitarian mythos. What is it with the ideologues and sand-blasted concrete anyway?

I have no idea what it is, aside from mind-bogglingly ugly and across the road from my hotel. I'll try to find out tomorrow.

Sixty-four: ubiquitous

Sixty-four: ubiquitous, originally uploaded by meganknight.

Well, Delhi is something of a bust - I've barely taken any pics. Partly it's because I'm not doing any sightseeing, partly it's because I'm self-conscious on my own with a camera on the few occasions I have been sightseeing. I had to take this, though - I'll lighten it when I get home and have a better computer, but it's the sign for a Freemason's hall. Having been to London recently, and seen the incredible edifice that is the Freemason's Hall there, it's hard not to boggle at the contrast.