City girl moves to the Chinese countryside.
Oh, the things she will learn.

Posts tagged "travel"

Arrrrr! Escape the city and flee to this former pirate’s cove in HK Harbor

The first of two travel stories running on the AP Travel Wire this week A visit to Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong harbor By SUZANNE MA, For The Associated Press Tue Jan 11, 1:02 pm ET HONG KONG – Looking up at Hong Kong’s skyline of soaring office towers and mammoth apartment complexes, it’s hard to imagine that...

Into the mainland, and to Green Fields…

Much of the last few weeks have been spent preparing for my first trip back to mainland China. Part of that preparation has involved getting my Mandarin back up to speed. I spent just a year in Beijing learning how to read and write, cramming more than 50 new Chinese words a day into my...