Author Archives: admin

Now Amy is living in Leshan near Chengdu she already warned me that I might find it difficult to find as many vegetarian dishes as I do in Beijing, I found this out on Saturday night when we took at … Continue reading →

Going to see the pandas was something I really wanted to do whilst I was in China and this weekend I got to go! Anyone visiting China who loves animals I would definitely recommend going here, it was amazing. We … Continue reading →

Amy has now moved to Leshan to work in a school there to cover, so we decided to have a weekend in Chengdu because we were going to go anyway to see the pandas and this worked out perfect timing … Continue reading →

Our host families had told us that they wanted to try English pie so Amy and I decided that we would try and cook dinner for them! We cooked them meat and vegetable pie, vegetable ratatouille, mash potato, peas and … Continue reading →

Halloween isn’t a big celebration in China. However, some people do celebrate it and I got invited to a Halloween party by a friend of Cindy’s who was hosting the party for her daughter’s friends and they wanted a foreigner … Continue reading →

Amy and I woke up early on Saturday morning and went to the opening of a new Apple store in Wangfujing for you Dad! Heres some of the pictures.. (we thought you’d appreciate them :)) As you walked into the … Continue reading →

I was sooooo excited for my mum to be coming to China! When she arrived at the airport I couldn’t believe she was actually here (I squeezed her till she couldn’t breath – in a good way!!!). We had such … Continue reading →

Throughout my time in China so far Amy and I have dealt with a lot of staring but yesterday we had a very intense one, a man was walking past giving us the biggest grin and kind of stopped to … Continue reading →

Last week whilst mum was staying with me in China we went to see the temple of heaven on the Friday, as we were lining up waiting to buy our tickets we saw BTV BEIJING film crew (this is the … Continue reading →

So I went into what looked like an off-licence, when I got inside it was a big shop with lots and lots of different alcohol but in the middle of the shop there are tables and chairs with people just … Continue reading →