So it’s now a little more than a week before Matt and I are braving the mud, rain and no-showers-for-three-days to add arguably the best festival in the world, Glastonbury.
We’ve brought our tent (which I wanted to decorate in pinks and yellows but Matt told me it would devalue the tent), my gum boots (here [...]
I don’t very often get sick. The occasional cough here and there, a sniffle and then it all vanishes away.
And for the past two years I’ve been getting a flu shot. Which you can never really measure the value of until you don’t have one and BANG you’re hit with the flu.
No, no, I’m not [...]
My thoughts are with the families and friends of those affected by the earthquakes in China.
Our last stop in China was Shanghai.
On arriving in Shanghai and reaching our hotel, Anna, Helena and Alex settled in to their room to watch a film and we wandered down to an Irish Pub that Ruth and Nick knew [...]
There seem to be so many pop culture references to do with China that I am cashing in on here, but altering the title of “Slow Boat to China” slightly really does paint a picture of our cruise down the Yangtze River, from Chóngqìng to Yichang.
The main reason for the cruise was to go through [...]
After quite a late arrival in Nanjing and some beers with Ruth and Nick’s Australian expat friends for ANZAC day, Matt and I crashed in Ruth and Nick’s house in Ya Dong.
Waking up on Saturday morning I was greeted by Anna and Helena, who (I realised as I was flying over to China) I hadn’t [...]
I’d apologise for the unoriginal title of this blog, except that I’m not sorry at all as it’s actually an accurate description of Matt’s and my adventure to China.
Our story begins over a month ago on a cold, wet and windy London morning. Armed with a completed Chinese visa application form, my passport and a passport sized photo of my head showing my ears I marched down Regent Street towards the Chinese embassy.
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