I'm in Xi'an now for a quick getaway break from Beijing.  Too quick.  Not enough time to get to see all the famous places here.  Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I'm up and away to see the terraco

Why should I put up with s**t?I placed an ad on thebeijinger.  On it, my name is written.  And, yet, so so many times, I get e-mail replies from women who write things like, "Hi," or Hi there" and so

I've changed my thebeijinger ad again.  It now goes as follows:   *************************************************************   I'm a 34 year old single man living and working in Beijing. I was bor

While it saddens my heart to do so, I am now thinking of deleting my europeanpaulcarr.spaces.live.com blog and just keeping this one.  Msn spaces did me no favours by deleting it TWICE last year.  I f