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Back to england for a nice hot week camping in cornwall

Back to england for a nice hot week camping in cornwall

Back to england for a nice hot week camping in cornwall – the obvious holiday retreat for those living in Shanghai! Our secret family campsite, the ever idyllic community for old school friends and generations of returning families. Something rare about being able to play games with kids nowadays without parents having to worry. Slasha [...]

“That’s why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas.”

In the leading machine the Head of the Air Force was sitting beside the pilot. He had a world atlas on his knees and he kept staring first at the atlas, then at the ground below, trying to figure out where they were going. Frantically he turned the pages of the Atlas. “Where the devil [...]

New is better than old

New is better than old

this week, the infamous shangyang market closed down – infamous for selling fake watches bags dvd’s golf clubs and anything else you could possibly imagine. the now bricked up entrance has a government made banner hung over it stating “ban shangyang market” … err, you just did! another banner reading “beat conterfeit and shoddy“, good [...]

State of mind

as predicted by all whom live in shanghai for any length of time, you go through set periods of emotion living here.. first there is the amazement; “wow everything in china is so wonderful, it’s such an amazing place. etc.” then comes; “wow what an interesting place, everything here is just so interesting” and after [...]

Birthday Number 28

don’t make friends with people who are in charge of the free tequila at a mexican theme bar. and if you do, don’t go there on your birthday. less of a hang over, more like brain damage.

Australia Vs German

Australia Vs German

now there was a reason for me to actually buy the new toy… a wedding. with the exception of my aunties and my parents, i’m now the last in my entire small family to be married. but i don’t think i can get married now as my damn cousins have just done it so well. [...]

mental. mountains.

mental. mountains.

8th April 2006 – mental. mountains. so without the need to cycle across london to get to work for the last two years my cycling has been limited to the few weeks back at my parents house at christmas – while enjoyable it’s cold and pissing wet. however i have recently discovered that the mountain [...]

quick trip to thailand

escape to a little island, stay in a luxury hotel, all just 4 hours from shanghai. beautiful.

Tucker and I, lost in Vietnam

3 weeks of tucker

sorry if you’ve been looking at my website in the hope that i may have given you some interesting photos or stories about the wonderfully interesting country that is vietnam… but the truth is i’ve just been getting drunk letting tucker take the photos with his phone. click for full page…