3 Bikes, 2 phones and a purse, several travel cards and a pair of headphones – that’s what my five years in Nanjing cost me. My first bike lasted 11 days before someone helped themselves to it overnight but my current record is my new iPhone which lasted only two days before someone got their… Read More »
When I am worn out at the end of the day and am dragging my feet back towards home I enter the metro system and the first people I see are the staff at the scanning machines. They stand there all day, smart in their uniforms – two people whose job it is to point… Read More »
I have always found the police in China quite approachable and friendly – to the foreigners at least. So today when they called me up to say they were coming to see me with a form to sign I was curious. I didn’t think I had done anything wrong… nothing badly wrong anyhow. Luckily my… Read More »
The Chinese are famous for being big picture thinkers. Where we westerner consider the detail the Chinese care very little for the details. This frustrates us foreigners especially when it comes to Chinglish. Even the major banks don’t check the English on their signs and documents. We say “Why on earth don’t they just ask… Read More »