Learning Mandarin: Week 3
A week to go before we head out of Kunming into the great wide open, over 30 hours of language lessons in, and we are,...
A week to go before we head out of Kunming into the great wide open, over 30 hours of language lessons in, and we are,...
So the boy and I have completed our second week learning Mandarin in China. We’ve only got a week’s more learning before we’re out on...
Learning from our experiences in Indonesia, I figured it would be wise to start our sojourn in China by actually studying a bit of Mandarin...
Wandering around Kunming, our “home” for the past week, I sometimes feel a little like those British journalists inspecting America during the Gilded Age, marvelling...
China / Malaysia / Travel Lifestyle
by Theodora · Published September 3, 2011 · Last modified July 1, 2014
July 2014 update: This is an old post and detailed regulations have changed, but recent feedback from readers suggests that this is still a great...
Food / Malaysia / Singapore / Travel Lifestyle
by Theodora · Published August 29, 2011 · Last modified August 29, 2012
I really think I must have a food intolerance. After ten days in Singapore and a couple of weeks in Malaysia, I’m mysteriously bloated. My...