I am fed up of all my friends being away for my holiday as its always during holiday tie. It seems everyone has birthday parties except me. So I took drastic action and decided to have a birthday party when the weather was nice and when everyone was around. The South Bund was chosen as… Read More »
I still don’t understand why the fake DVD shops are tolerated in China. I am pretty sure copyright laws apply here but the shops are still open, still selling fake DVDs seemingly with impunity. Big Movie has outlets all over Shanghai but the biggest one I have found is on Xinle Lu. The one which… Read More »
Now our VPNs are all broken (thanks to the People’s National Congress being held in Beijing), I can’t watch any TV programmes, I can’t get Netflix or Youtube – life is very hard. So I have fallen back on the DVD shops to provide my light entertainment. Big Movie is probably the most comprehensive and… Read More »
To the Irish bar, Finnegans Wake, for Christmas lunch. The price of the meal had risen by just under 100% since booking it so the 6 of us were pretty hacked off before we started. Sitting down at 2pm we passed through the prawn cocktail and then the soup and eventually at 3:30pm got the… Read More »
When I was asked to manage Henry’s Home restaurant to make it “The best steak house in Nanjing” I thought this would be great opportunity to use my years of catering and restaurant managing experience (which amount to none) to make a real difference. A chat with the owner confirmed I would have carte blanche… Read More »