Snapshots of our life in Tianjin, China and travel within the region.
Sam and I have been in Tianjin for a week now, and today is the first day we are staying inside because it literally hurts to breathe. Up until now, the air quality hasn’t been that bad. A few smoggy days, certainly — and one day it rained whereby I subsequently noticed that my new…
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Mainland China is the fourth-most visited country in the world (Macau and Hong Kong rank 6th and 8th, respectively for 2012) and yet, despite the millions of tourists, obtaining a tourist visa remains a somewhat daunting task. And if a person is going for employment or other business purposes, an additional hurdle of document authentication…
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In late 2011, Sam and I were riding our bikes back from a birthday party at Good Samaritan Beach Resort on the far north-east side of Tongatapu. It was early evening on a Saturday, and we’d spent the last hour pedaling through plantations and small villages where men gathered in kava huts. As we approached…
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View Hong Kong Island in a larger map (Note: blue markers indicate locations, pink lines/markers indicate transport routes) Hotel and “Airport Shuttle”: We left Cambodia with a little trepidation; Hong Kong is expensive, everyone says it, and since we were on a tight budget, we weren’t sure how wise it was for us to have…
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Last month, my husband had a layover in Kowloon, Hong Kong while en route to a business conference in Cambodia. Siem Reap Cambodia, that is, the gateway to one of the places I’ve always wanted to visit: Angkor Wat! What to do when faced with an adventure opportunity beyond the scope of one’s income?…
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