I’m honestly not sure what to say about September except that it flew by. September is usually my favorite month of the year. I love the changing seasons and bringing my sweaters out of storage. In South China, the...
As we are about to roll into October, the quickly dwindling 2017 calendar has us looking ahead to 2018. As we are known to do, Julie and I sat around this weekend mixing a few gin and tonics at home, and we discussed...
It’s about that time of year when school is starting and the weather is beginning to turn. Except here of course, where it’s still basically scorched earth and excessive sweating in public is a daily...
Standing in the Shenzhen Airport terminal, Julie searched the departures board. Not to find the gate, or whether the flight was delayed. Nope. She didn’t know where we were going. For the previous two weeks, I...
We went into August with no real plans for the month. Nothing booked. By the end of August, we had spent one weekend in Macau, and another in Sanya, a city on Hainan Island off the coast of Southern China. I guess we...
What is expat life really like in Shenzhen, China? It’s a question we get a lot. People are curious about lots of aspects of our new life in China really, from weather to shopping to how things work. In fact, we...
