A new lease on life

Well today we agreed to a lease on a nice little 2-bedder walk up apartment, fully furnished, down on Wen’Er Lu a few blocks west from the office.  We’ve got the keys now, but will make a proper effort to move our stuff there tomorrow (pictures to follow). Signing a lease in China is an […]

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Seeing the sights

Before we get into today’s post… Here’s a new section we’re going to call “So you thought you had a tough job?!” (Click to see a larger version of each image). Now that’s one unfortunate guy. On to our regular programme… Today we did some sightseeing with friends (Hi Barbara & David!) around west HangZhou. […]

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A really clear night in HangZhou

Hi Everyone, Tonight in HZ we had a really spectacular mini-typhoon which ripped through the district around 6:30pm and finished up at about 8pm.  As a consequence of the copious amounts of rain, the skyline afterwards was crystal clear – strikingly so. Having my camera handy, I snapped some high resolution (12 megapixel) shots from […]

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