Fake memories

Later this week I’ll be spending a night in a Holiday Inn – which normally wouldn’t be a big deal, but when it comes to Holiday Inns I tend to get a little sentimental, since I spent 3 years living in apartment buildings owned by (and right next to) the Holiday Inn in Beijing.  Now [...]

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King Cake – For Real This Time!

A few of you may remember in September last year I posted about the tradition involving King Cake.  It’s a cake that is eaten on Epiphany, which is the 6th of January (so obviously is usually a Christian tradition – although I’m not necessarily religious, I just like cake).  A figurine is hidden inside the [...]

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Places of the Past

Since I’ll be graduating in June (supposedly) and therefore, in theory, joining the working world shortly after, I decided that it would be wise to postpone that eventuality and travel.  Two friends of mine, whom I met while at university, also enjoy travelling and, since they’ve never been to anywhere on the Asian continent before, [...]

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What Next?

In Bath there’s a great bookshop called Topping and Company in a part of town called the Paragon.  It’s slightly outside of the centre of town and so not a bookshop that I tend to walk past very often.  Monday happened to be one of those days when I do walk past it however and [...]

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The Beijing Olympic Games are Open!

I just watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games – visually it was spectacular, and I have always been a big fan of the Olympics, summer and winter. Although you could argue it’s just another tournament like so many others and that it’s being tainted by doping like so many others, I somehow [...]

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Kite Flying

On my way home from work today, I was riding my bike on the paquier past the lake in Annecy. It was a nice day with a gentle breeze and so there were a couple of people out flying kites. For some reason, I had this incredibly strong flashback – one I’ve never [...]

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