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Interesting online article that sums up many of my concerns about touring in China.

Work will be a little quieter for the next few weeks. My colleague Daniel is in Japan, followed by Hong Kong, while another, Pascale, is off to China. You can view her travel blog, though there is no real content yet. B and I have been seriously thinking about a holiday in China early next…

We are bad. Bad, bad, bad. We were in Westfield Hurstville today and walked past the Pets Paradise. We always visit the pet shops, wherever we go, to admire the dogs. We saw an eight week old brown Finnish Lapphund /Japanese Spitz cross and just couldn't stop ourselves from putting down a deposit. He's tiny,…

Last week Bangkok's Don Muang airport closed for passenger traffic, replaced by the new Suvarnabhumi airport. I only visited Don Muang twice, in transit on our honeymoon flight to Paris via London and on return in November of 2001. We arrived there at about 11pm local time, flying over a Bangkok still alive with neon…

It's a long weekend, a chance to catch up on various household tasks and hopefully take some time to appreciate the home we live in. When work and commuting take up an entire day and time at home is spent doing regular chores, vegetating in front of a television or asleep the house can become…