life in Beijing

My wife, thanks to one of her hobbies being not just shopping, but getting stuff

Mar 26, 2011 wangbo

…and so we wait. The hospital’s alright. We know that because it’s so crowded. There

Dec 8, 2010 wangbo

…well, my first and second Beijing rush-hours as a driver, that is. I picked up

It’s been an interesting few days. On Saturday a few of us foreign teachers went

The results of today’s trip to our local Carrefour were, as always, mixed. There were

It’s not just heat that’s been on the way up recently, but water use, too.

Apr 5, 2010 wangbo

I’d finished my lesson prep so far as I could – one of those frustrating

Mar 28, 2010 wangbo

…changed utterly… …apologies to Mr Yeats. But ‘utterly’ is how much it had changed. No

And so we’re preparing to celebrate the advent of the year of the tiger down

Feb 9, 2010 wangbo

There’s a simple, tactile, olfactory pleasure in spending a morning in bed with a good