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 [...]
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 [...]
When I first came to China on business about 6 years ago, like most first-timers, I was somewhat startled by what is eaten by the Chinese…. it seemed that anything & everything could go into the enormous variety of food dishes available here.
I later learned that there is a local saying that the Chinese eat anything with legs on, [...]
Finally got round to updating the blog after being back in Australia over Xmas. It was a bit of a shock to leave the Sydney summer and arrive back in China in the middle of winter because it’s really cold in Shanghai with temperatures down below freezing. I know that’s not cold compared to some [...]
Traveling by taxi is one of life’s pleasures in my opinion….in Sydney, where my home is, the taxi drivers are a veritable league of nations. An original Aussie driver is very hard to find these days because the arduous task of navigating the city’s clogged roads has fallen to the migrants who have changed the [...]