Poling the Planet, Punting in China
By Roadjunky, Posted Dec 29, 2008
![]() Throw away your laptop and become a boatman. Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/ |
An English boatman goes looking for his counterparts in Asia
By Roadjunky, Posted Dec 29, 2008
![]() Throw away your laptop and become a boatman. Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/ |
An English boatman goes looking for his counterparts in Asia
Working for a living is the kind of common thread that can draw people together across the world. And even if you don’t really work for a living but just push the odd tourist up and down a river, well, it’s still a common bond that transcends boundaries.
James Bayliss-Smith is traveling the world on a mission to find other boatmen who use the same vessel with which he plies a trade on the river of Cambridge, UK when he’s not making videos. The Chinamen are delighted to see him.
We just found on Google Video a montage of scenes from the hilarious Foreign Babes in Beijing, the Chinese soap opera that inspired actress Racehl DeWoskin to write an ...
There was a feel-good article in the Guardian the other day about laughter classes in Tehran.
God knows there’s lots to laugh about. Here’s a comic speech given by the ...