Ten Reasons You Should Totally Visit Hangzhou
To Chinese, the city of Hangzhou, a budget airline hub that’s under an hour from Shanghai by bullet train, encapsulates the cultured, artistic leisure of...
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Hong Kong – Island of a Thousand Stories
For a city-state that dynamited two mountains and pushed the shattered remnants into the sea to grow its airport, for an engine of global capitalism...
Top 10 Things to Do in Beijing with Kids
Headed to Beijing? The Chinese capital can be most excellent fun with kids at almost any time of year — though do avoid the main...
Coming Home?
Like most things to do with travel insurance, extracting us from Hong Kong takes longer than you could possibly think. On Thursday, we’re going to...
Fit to Fly?
It’s an indulgent buckshee week in Hong Kong. Zac and dad head to the movies, to the arcades, barely surfacing from the air-conditioned tunnels and...
Top Ten Things to Do in Hong Kong with Kids
We’ve spent quite a bit of time in Hong Kong by now – it’s actually a great place to visit with kids — and yet...
Good to Go!
There’s a bustle in the room when I snap awake, an orderly cluster of pastel-dressed nurses, neat in pink, apricot, mauve and chocolate, emitting the...
The Longest Night
After Zac’s epic and terrifying reaction to Stemetil, I am now quietly confident that everything that could go wrong already has. After a refreshing cigarette...
What Else Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Union hospital stands tower-high among the green hills of the Sha Tin district in Hong Kong’s New Territories. Jungle winds between luxury condos, car...
In Xanadu…
There are some places on this earth that have a magic in their name. Samarkand. Timbuktu. Xanadu… And, as Xanadu is pretty much on the...