waiting for Year of the Horse to come

Thanks to my very good friend ramblerstale I got a chance to experience Chinese New Year in Shanghai...

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable. - R. Kapuscinski, Travels with Herodotus