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2018 Highlights: World Travel

We’ve been documenting the highlights of our annual travels every year since 2015. Purely selfishly, it is so much fun (for us!) to go through these articles every year and reminisce about the adventures we’ve...

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November 2018 Month In Review

I can hardly believe that December is upon us. As Gretchen Rubin says, ‘The days are long but the years are short.’ As I get older, this sentiment rings more true. Mondays are as endless as always but...

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China Visa Process: Moving from Shenzhen to Shanghai

It’s been six weeks since we moved to Shanghai, and we have settled into our new expat home quite nicely. We made the requisite trips to IKEA to find a few extra pieces of furniture, snagged some decor pieces at...

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Our Autumn Driving Tour of Ireland

The morning that we woke up in a yurt, on a peaceful lake in County Clare, I knew that our vacation in Ireland was just the thing the doctor ordered. This long-planned trip, to align with China’s National Day...

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September AND October Month in Review

First off, apologies to those who noticed the absence of an update last month. We were in the middle of extensive travel and during the first week of October we were actually on vacation, so I thought it best to take...

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Goodbye Shenzhen, Hello Shanghai

It’s official, we are residents of Shanghai! Moving to Shanghai is something that we didn’t even think was an option only a few months ago. But life, especially the sometimes hectic pace of expat life, can...