Ocean Park! Woot!
If there’s a better place to celebrate FINALLY scoring a Chinese visa than Ocean Park Hong Kong – at least when you’re a single mother...
Category: Places
In Which Things Fail to Go to Plan in Beijing
After a week spent sorting out Chinese visas in Kathmandu, plus getting stuck in Lukla on the back of Everest Base Camp, my projects for...
Ice Skating in Beijing
When it comes to ice skating, like everything else, the Chinese do it differently. Very differently. And ice skating in Beijing is really something else....
Welcome to China
Despite the wonderful view of the Himalayas unfurling below us, I am not particularly optimistic about the next stages of our journey. I hate flying...
Pictures of Nepal
I may have spent the last few posts bitching and whining about Kathmandu, but… We did, honestly, love Nepal. So here’s my favourite pictures of...
How to Find Accommodation in China – in Association with Wimdu
Over the months we’ve spent in China so far, I’ve had more experience than I’d like in finding different types of accommodation, from short term...
Farewell to Kathmandu
Having neglected most other parenting duties over the last few days, I figure that today would be a good day to continue Zac’s ongoing masterclass...
Trainwreck
This post is, umm, “not suitable for work”. Here’s a nice one, about Istanbul’s Animal and Flower Market, while this one from our Lebanon roadtrip...
A Load-Shedding Mystery
After three solid days of bureaucracy, with at least two more to come, a woman’s fancy lightly turns to facials. Well, mine does, anyway. Even...
Boxing Day at Nepali Immigration
“Do I HAVE to come, Mum?” says Zac, as I drag him out of bed and bodily towards a taxi, en route to Nepali Immigration,...