I really do hate crowds. Crowds make me want to hit people or queue jump […]
It was a few hours after we got the news that our flight to Chengdu was […]
So in one fell swoop, I killed both of my computers over the course of one […]
I got my stuff. Oh, god but it’s lovely.               […]
  One of the more precarious aspects about living abroad has been finding clothes to cover […]
In Istanbul, at the last flat I lived in before we left Turkey in 2008, my […]
I’ve been told I’m a good teacher. I’ve been teaching English for nearly a decade now […]
  Shanghai summers are deeply unpleasant. Temperatures tend to hover in the mid 30s, with weather […]
It’s a funny thing starting an expat/travel blog sixteen years after you started travelling/living elsewhere and […]
This particular blog has only been alive since late April this year- not even a toddler, […]
Before we went to Myanmar, we really had no idea what to expect, food-wise.  It wasn’t […]