When I moved to Shanghai on an 18 month work assignment in early 2008, I rented a furnished apartment in the Xintiandi area.
I soon realized that I needed to get some additional stuff and decided that the big new Ikea near the Indoor Stadium would have what I required.
So I went there one Saturday to do some shopping.
I [...]
Feral Scooters – Indonesian Style
I have been meaning to write this up since Xmas….
We heard the first one before we saw it! Sounded kind of somewhere in between a chain saw and a garden whipper-snipper and my first reaction was it was that either it was some kind of joke, or maybe an Indonesian version of [...]
For the last three weeks I have been back in China and had a colleague
of mine, Scott Breeding, out from our company’s headquarters in the USA. Scott is quite a character – well read & traveled with a real passion for what he does and a seemingly endless stream of great one-liners. It was a [...]
I need to be upfront and state that the departure lounge at Port Moresby’s domestic terminal is not my favorite place in Papua New Guinea.
The general rule of thumb when visiting PNG is to get through Port Moresby as quickly as possible and on to your final destination. There is not much to see in the national [...]
There is something inherently intimidating about Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby and I think it’s a combination of the “rascal factor” &m standing out in the crowd as a “dim-dim”, or white fella, in this country of dark skinned & fuzzy haired people.
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of my favorite places – it [...]