In Canada, it is highly unlikely that you would ever come across a street vendor setting […]
At the bus stop just outside our apartment complex there are three elderly people clad in […]
One of the interesting things about living in a country that has only recently shifted from […]
This morning as I walked to work, a Shanghai municipal worker was crouched down on […]
The hills are so famous that they are on the 20rmb note. Looking closely at […]
It’s deceptively shiny and new and almost Western here (and by Western, I mean, it’s all […]
Although I previously raved about how I could get all sorts of imported loveliness in Shanghai […]
In Tahrir Midan, the Picadilly of central Cairo’s circuses, after a long, hot, dusty day […]
We will start with Mohammed Ali and the perfumists of Cairo. We wandered down the […]
“Go to the Bund at 7am! Watch the people do exercises on the riverbanks! Or in […]
Shanghai has about three distinct rainy seasons: the freezing, bitterly sharp and spiky winter rains; […]
