If you're on a tighter budget, check out the food court at the Vega shopping center for lunch, you can get a solid meal for around 300-400 rubles, way cheaper than sit-down places. Also, the local mar...

Good on you for putting this together. One spot I rarely see mentioned is the old Wuhan University campus near the East Lake end. The cherry blossoms get all the attention in spring, but the rest of t...

This is a solid guide, I've been living here for two years and it covers most of the essentials. One thing I'd add is that the bus to Shuanglong Cave from the north bus station is only 5 CNY, and if y...

There's a quiet one about the costume department in the basement. Some of the seamstresses have this thing where they always leave a single safety pin open on the workbench overnight, like an offering...

You're spot on about those granite variations. They're actually intentional in a lot of Berlin memorials, part of the design philosophy that history isn't monolithic. The Gedenkstätte used stone from...