March 1, 2017
Work & live in Chongqing By working for the Modern International Arts & Design Academy (MIADA) a part of the Chongqing Technology and business university. I lived for one year in this amazing city. The campus of the university was located on the south bank of Yangtze river Nan an. The area where I was living in was the southern…
June 24, 2016
Silk road… follow the ancient footsteps. Everybody knows the silk road. Different trading routes from the western part of Europe to the east all the way to the ancient capital of China Chang’an. With some students, translators and teachers of MIADA I went to the northern part of China on a cultural trip. I visited Xi’ning, Kumbum Monastery, Qinghai lake,…
April 11, 2016
Chongqing, China aka the Mountain city Along the Yangtzé and Jialing river there’s the city of Chongqing. A self governed city state since 1998. The state is rouphly the size of the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg). But it has 3-times as much people. According the numbers in 2016 the city got 30 million people in the greater Chongqing area. Chongqing…
March 7, 2016
Visiting Wulong Just 3 hours outside Chongqing in the same province: Chongqing. You find Wulong or Wulang karst. It’s the valley of the 3 natural bridges. Famous of the movies in The curse of the Golden Flower and Transformers 4 2 day 1 night trip It was a 2 day and 1 night trip. I asked one of my translators…
January 31, 2016
On the road in Chongqing, China I’m on the road again. Chongqing China. It is a totally different experience from last year’s. Last year I kept going, this year I will be staying put. Last year was about taking, this year is about giving back. Teaching at MIADA For the next couple of months, I will be a guest teacher…