老贵阳
Few 2022 thoughts from Friendship Rd
I've been wanting to write a word or two about the year 2022 for a while now, but it wasn't until I had my mobile phone fried by a faulty...
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老贵阳
- Nov 21, 2022
- 4 min
Remembering Remnants, part III
Dear Readers, I'm back with the new portion of the Remnants. When I say I'll swing by "tomorrow" it seems to be a week or two later, but...
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老贵阳
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
Remembering Remnants, part II
Hey hey Dear Readers, I'm back with the rest of the pictures included on the Remnants exhibition. Number 3 and 4 were both taken in the...
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老贵阳
- Nov 5, 2022
- 5 min
Remembering Remnants
This is a piece that I should have written a long time ago, yet as always I got preoccupied with hundreds of different things and in the...
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老贵阳
- Oct 9, 2022
- 3 min
Back from the Dead!
Dear Reader, In case you wondered - no, Laoguiyang isn't quite dead yet. Perhaps you thought, after having read the last post on this...
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老贵阳
- Nov 25, 2021
- 10 min
(The Flight of the Flying Mountain) To My Beloved Sandy River Alley
All you need to do is leave the house and gaze at the splendour of the beautiful, subtle rust on metal, the xanthous autumn leaves
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老贵阳
- Sep 3, 2021
- 5 min
Guiyang History IV: The Oil Press Town, part II
The southern part of the Oil Press Town (south of the main street, the area that is now under rapid housing development....
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老贵阳
- Jul 23, 2021
- 6 min
Guiyang History: The Oil Press Town (1/2)
If I were to say that there are places in Guiyang that are known to almost everybody who has ever lived here, I would mention....
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老贵阳
- Jun 22, 2021
- 5 min
The Sea Horse Thoroughfare, part II
Who would have thought! To find this ancient wonder, long lost in the ebb of time, right here in the City. I have always spoken about how...
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老贵阳
- May 10, 2021
- 3 min
The Sea Horse Thoroughfare Trail - Part I
There is, however, a rather hidden place here that sports a quite unusual name - the Sea Horse Thoroughfare Road. It sprawls across...
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老贵阳
- Mar 11, 2021
- 4 min
Guiyang History II: The Six-holed Bridge
Upon me first arriving in Guiyang I often exercised my innate curiosity, trying to ask the locals about names of places and their...
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老贵阳
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
Guiyang History: Triprimacy Well
Awaiting great favour in their career
Those, who sip from the Clear Spring
Below the Heavenly Turtle’s gaze
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老贵阳
- Feb 21, 2021
- 7 min
In the Domain of the Golden Sun, part I - The Dragon Spring
Strange powers converge in the City; it is because of them, that I always feel the time flow here to be a flat circle, rather than a...
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老贵阳
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
The BBQ Lady of the Great Southern Gate
On cold winter days I like to come back in my thoughts to the first time I visited the City. I remember it bathed in the yellowish glow...
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老贵阳
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
After the Storm / Happy New Year 2021!
It has been a couple of quiet months for me and the City. Frankly, I have not spoken to her much after the disaster that has befallen us...
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老贵阳
- Aug 25, 2020
- 11 min
The Story of Two Fish
At the foot of the Black Spirit Mountain, down her southern slope, lies a narrow little alley called the Carp Street;
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老贵阳
- Aug 14, 2020
- 7 min
The Friendship Road, part I
My first memory of the Friendship Rd. must be from the times of my humble beginnings, when someone invited me for dinner...
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老贵阳
- Aug 9, 2020
- 1 min
Update: 9th of August
Since I don't know how else to inform about the site updates, I'm going to write it down here from time to time so you don't miss new...
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老贵阳
- Aug 9, 2020
- 5 min
Celestial Goose Trail, part III
Even a loyal servant to the Will of the City sometimes has to find solace in the greens of the mountains, and blues of the waters...
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老贵阳
- Jul 30, 2020
- 5 min
Celestial Goose Trail, part II
Shall I take the route I know, through the backside of Coal Mine Village and Witches' Hill, or do I feel adventurous today?"
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