Animal Petting Zoo @ Joy City
Joy City is the mall that keeps on giving! Recently I was talking about Joy City with a friend, and he mentioned he’d taken his son to an animal petting zoo there. I thought he had his malls mixed […]
Travel to the idyllic Anji, Zhejiang Province in China
When we moved to Shanghai in 2016, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine us taking weekend road trips to the mountains, swimming in crystal clear mountain streams among forests of towering bamboo! Thankfully friends in the know […]
Baoyan Paradise (by Loft)
Waking up to torrential Plum Rains yesterday we were thankful to have booked tickets to Baoyan Paradise, a children’s indoor play centre, at Daning Shopping Centre in Jing’an North. I’d found Baoyan Paradise on Dianping. With over 4000 reviews […]
Joy City, The Ramen Noodle Museum & Sky Ring
As malls go, Shanghai Joy City Mall on Xizang North Road in Jing’an is pretty cool. What more could you ask from a mall with two shopping towers and an enormous Ferris wheel hanging off the side of it? […]
Celebrating Dragon Boat Festival
As a child growing up in Australia, I remember seeing the Dragon Boat races on the Swan River in Perth. The colourfully painted dragon head on the front of each longboat and the rhythmic drumming of the pace drum […]
The Relieve Stress Museum & Starry Magic Planet
Last week my friend, Janette, asked me if I would like to ‘Go and smash some stuff’. I replied with an emphatic ‘YES!’ before she’d even had a chance to explain where, when and how. Janette had heard about […]
Self-Isolation & Social Distancing
My family and I have lived in China for over 3 years, and have been self-isolating since January after learning of the Covid-19 outbreak. Based on the information we have learned over the past few months, I will explain what steps we are taking to protect ourselves and how to self-isolate.
60 Days of Covid-19 in China
We’ve just clocked past sixty days of quarantine, self-isolation, social distancing, whatever you want to call it, and many of you have asked how we’re doing. It’s hard to say. Physically? We’re good. We take our temperatures twice a […]
Silver Linings – 44 Days of Covid-19 in China
It’s been 44 days since I learned of the Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Everything that has happened since reading that article six weeks ago seems to have played out in a weird time warp. A sense that it’s all […]
M50 Art Precinct: A visual feast
The M50 Art Precinct is a must see during your stay in Shanghai. Parks, cultural centres, and tourist sites throughout Shanghai have experienced closures due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions. Even Shanghai Disney Resort, ‘The happiest place on earth,’ closed […]
Forget Sanity – 37 Days of Covid-19 in China
The spread of Covid-19 may be slowing in Shanghai and across China, but as yet I’m unable to see an end to this bizarre reality we find ourselves living in. All schools, and many businesses, remain closed due to […]
Staying Safe from Covid-19
If there’s anything I’ve learned in the last four weeks, since the outbreak of Covid-19 (Coronavirus), it’s that I never gave enough thought to the transfer of germs in everyday life. Of course, I was aware of the spread […]
21 Days of Covid-19 in China
Many of you have messaged asked what it’s like living in Shanghai at the moment, three weeks after the Coronavirus outbreak hit media headlines. It’s hard to describe the stark contrast to anyone who hasn’t experienced the hectic bustle […]
13 Days of Covid-19 in China
It’s been 13 days since I first saw news of the Novel Corona Virus filtering into WeChat groups in Shanghai. It seems like months ago I read the article by That’s Shanghai Magazine titled, ’17 New Corona Virus Cases […]