To the mainland

Shenzhen today, just over the border from Hong Kong. Actually a bit of a milestone in that this will be the first border I’ve crossed by train. I’ve done plane, I’ve done car, and I’ve done a boat, but never a train. Of course, I’m travelling with a group of friends which means everyone has to get this and that ready and it is going to take forever to do simple things. But we’ll get by I suspect. ]]>

Vegans not a lifestyle for kids

UK newspapers about a study that shows a vegetarian diet is harmful to children in their growing years. I’ve always been shocked by the fact that some of the sickest, well “sickliness” people I know were vegetarians. They were always kind of weak when confronting a cold or the flu, and never had the same energy level that I as a carnivore seemed to have. Of course, my observations do not a study make, but it is interesting.]]>