Our New Territories

Well folks, that’s it. We set up this blog to chronicle our adventures and misadventures in China and now that time has come to an end. Afte...

When I was younger, identity was a much simpler concept. For example, I had a clear idea of what it meant to be German: spoke German, ate sa...

-seeing young men who spent more time on their hair than their girlfriends did -embarrassing my daughters on the MTR by making faces at li...

Some of the aspects of life in Hong Kong that I will miss once we leave: -living without a car -my multi-purpose Octopus card -good cheap ...

In part, I wanted to live and work overseas for the sheer adventure of it all. It’s been quite a ride. In the last 24 m...

No doubt about it, I was agitating for an overseas experience. My wife and two daughters would have been perfectly content ...

I tend to push a little hard for things that I want to see happen. Oh let’s see if I can come up with a recent example . . . I g...

L angston Hughes asked: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? ...

I’ve got the detox jitters. I am going through a serious case of withdrawal. After spending my weekends viewing the world through the lens...

The Old Guard that currently runs the country will one day be replaced by a new generation of leadership that did not come to power in the s...