Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK,...
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK,...
I wasn’t born in London. But I lived in London from when I was five until I was seventeen, and then again from 21 to...
One of Zās signal complaints ā his desire for a skyline safely sated by China ā over almost two years in the tropics has been...
by Theodora · Published November 3, 2011 · Last modified September 10, 2016
I wasn’t optimistic about celebrating Halloween in China. Not least because my Halloween track record has been pretty damn abysmal over most of my son’s...
Z jumps from stone to stone across the waterfall which tumbles in a rocky stream across the cliff-edge path and a mile or so down...
“If you finish this book,” Sophie reiterates, “You’ll be able to get all around China with no problems.ā I wouldn’t have thought it possible when...
It’s been sunny lately. So t’other day we went to the park. And the park was a lake. With nine dragons. Now, the Chinese have...
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...
Even after boarding Indonesian ferries, riding rural Cambodian buses and squeezing onto the London Tube during the Christmas Eve shopping frenzy, taking the bus in...
Indonesia / Mishaps / Timor Leste
by Theodora · Published September 6, 2011 · Last modified August 29, 2012
I have a bunch of funny motorbike stories from our trip across Indonesia and Timor Leste that I never got time to write up. Here’s...