According to my husband, I don’t take care of myself. Sure I eat a healthy vegetarian diet, run 3 times a week, don’t smoke or drink, limit myself to one coffee per day, only drink decaff tea and take extra care when I cross the road. But apparently that’s not enough. Because there are some things I […]
We’ve been in Beijing for a few weeks now, and despite years of saying ‘I’m not really a fan of Beijing, more of a Shanghai girl’, I actually love it. It probably helps that we’ve been really lucky with the weather. There have been more fresh-air days than not, and we arrived during Beijing’s short spring, […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! 圣诞快乐！ This is my second Christmas in China, but my first as a family of three, and our first in our more permanent home, so I really had a chance to create some atmosphere and get into the Christmas spirit*. So I decided to throw a Christmas party for R’s cousins! You can […]
A few years ago, back when I worked a 9-5 job in the UK, I dreamed of living in China, speaking Chinese and learning all about Chinese culture and people. I could’ve never dreamed I’d be living in a Chinese family, speaking Chinese every day and being taught how to cook authentic Chinese food by […]
Just after I published my last post about the preparations for winter here in Dalian, I realised I forgot to cover what’s been going on here the last few weeks. Namely, I’ve seen a lot of cabbage. And I mean A LOT. One day we arrived at my parents-in-law’s home to see over 50 big 大白菜 […]
I’ve always been the type of person to set New Year’s resolutions and I love the positivity that the New Year brings, I feel like a new woman and it gives me a new lease of life to pursue the things I want. When I say resolutions, I guess I don’t just mean resolutions, but […]
After having known R for just a week, we already started planning our future move to China in 2014. So when Christmas 2013 came around, we decided to spend the big day just the two of us: we didn’t know when our next Christmas in the UK would come around and we were so loved […]
Today is the second time me and my hubby have celebrated his birthday together, the first time here in China. I have a really nice memory of this day last year: we had been dating just a few months and I had no idea what to buy him (he’s that kind of man, if he […]
There are places in this world that just take your breath away, time seems to stop and you realise you are standing in a very special place. It could be because of important historical events that took place there, because you spent your whole life watching these cities immortalised in movies, or because they are so […]
I’m not afraid to say it: I’m a massive fan of Starbucks. I know this may not be PC, but bear with me. I’ve known it for a while but it came all the more clear on my recent trip to Shanghai. You see I’ve been living here in Guilin for around 2 months and […]
Diaries of a Yangxifu 