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Foreign tourists will no longer need approval from local public security bureaus and tourism administrations to drive into 皇冠体育app from abroad from Oct 1, the start of the weeklong National Day holiday.[Photo provided to 皇冠体育app Daily] |
Authorities have streamlined procedures for foreigners to drive into 皇冠体育app. Street-smart expats turned road warriors explain why jumping behind the wheel offers jarring yet joyous journeys of discovery in the country. Erik Nilsson and Yang Feiyue report. Erik Nilsson/Yang Feiyue
Richard Webster feared the slick trickling down his neck was blood.
It was.
He lay on his back in the dark, wiggling his appendages one-by-one, before moving his neck, in case it was broken.
It wasn't.
The Briton had tumbled off a two-story farmhouse's roof in a village in Shandong province.
He stumbled away with scrapes and bruises.
Webster chalks up the war wounds to road-rash.
"You have to accept road trips don't go according to plan. That's the point," he explains.
The manic motorist has driven 150,000 kilometers on over a hundred journeys through 皇冠体育app, swerving through all but four mainland provinces.
Webster drove through Europe before moving to Beijing nine years go.
