It’s a testament to how many foreigners must have left over the last year that both of my cab drivers yesterday were of the talkative variety..

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China ·
It’s a testament to how many foreigners must have left over the last year that both of my cab drivers yesterday were of the talkative variety..
Living Abroad, London, Travel ·
Something about the summer heat turns polite British people into monsters.
blogging, Living Abroad, Writing ·
It’s difficult. It’s so difficult to build tension, to make people you’ve made up on a page sound like human beings, to make readers root for or against someone.
There’s this moment I think about a lot. I’m in a cab, going down Yongjia Road, crossing the Shanghai Culture Square and Maoming South Road. I’m on the way to J+S. And then I start sobbing. I’m leaving China in…
Now, one of the things I don’t love about London is that getting anywhere, absolutely anywhere, takes an hour. It’s great for getting through your Kindle read. It’s not great when you’re in Wimbledon at 11:45 on a Saturday night and facing a 1+ hour commute home.
I’d like to issue an official apology to Charles Dickens: Charlie, I get it now. Winter in Great Britain sucks. It’s cruel, cold, and dark.
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