Since April 2007, the Jazz workers have paid homage to the King of Thailand, playing his music in markets across his kingdom, crossed through Cambodian fields full of tourists blowing up cows with rocket launchers for 5 dollars a cow, ascended the length of Vietnam to meet Mr Diamond and Mr Strong in mad Hanoi, through the mountains of Yunnan, along the Red River and the Yellow River and waved their flag upon the peak of a mountain 5000 meters above sea level on the Tibetan plain.
After charging past the Terracotta army in Xian and the broiling heats of Chengdu they arrived at Shanghai where they worked hard on the metro and various bars about town to make enough money for the ferry to Japan. On a rainy morning they cycled through the wild markets of Shanghai to the ferry port and loaded onto the boat for the richest per capita and most notorious Asian country after Guadaloupe!
Jimbino pondered the challenge that lay ahead as he sploshed in the ferry sauna hot tub crossing the yellow sea to the sausage shaped island!
After charging past the Terracotta army in Xian and the broiling heats of Chengdu they arrived at Shanghai where they worked hard on the metro and various bars about town to make enough money for the ferry to Japan. On a rainy morning they cycled through the wild markets of Shanghai to the ferry port and loaded onto the boat for the richest per capita and most notorious Asian country after Guadaloupe!
Jimbino pondered the challenge that lay ahead as he sploshed in the ferry sauna hot tub crossing the yellow sea to the sausage shaped island!
Pleeaaasse phone me!!! CHINA CALLING!
We have now been one year in Asia - the first cities we visited were shanghai and beijing - there chinese would rush up and give us their business card - some of them hardly able to speak any english at all - one woman gave us a photocopy of her passport with her email written on the bottom. we received emails from these people the whole 6 months we were in laos, cambodia, vietnam and thailand saying - "when are you coming back to china? please phone me!" I sent a group email from japan and one girl sent a screeming email - how did you get to japan without coming through shanghai - pleeaaasse phone me!! - and i dont know who on earth she is! I explained that my office is a rucksack with bits of food floating about, an old book, money in 4 different currencies, unsent postcards and a torn map of the world ... so i apologise but our production is not always the most reliable! But, after sailing to japan two months ago we are starting to make plans to return to the middle kingdom - shanghai indeed - in about 2 or 3 weeks and then back to beijing. At first we had a pretty tough time in japan but i found 20,000 yen on the street - 200 dollars - and have earnt a little money so hopefully we will go back to china with some coin. We have been putting off returning to china as things get more and more excting in japan! But when we do get there it is going to be a little test of extreem memory.
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