Expat Life

Welcome to our expat family story! Here you will find articles about some of our current adventures in Suzhou; China and our past adventures in Penang!

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Top 3 Chinese Restaurants in Suzhou Industrial Park, (on a budget).

Within a two km radius of where we are based in Suzhou Industrial Park, there are many small restaurants, mainly noodle houses or hot...

Easy Easter?

Easter was blessed by the arrival of a good friend's new baby boy who I had the privilege of being the first non-family visitor in...

Global Citizenship and International Women's Day

Yesterday, Dulwich International High School celebrated International Women’s Day and Global Citizenship and I assisted Mike to arrange...

Mulled Wine and Cinderella

The rude awaking of an unforgiving school bus schedule and new term wrenched us from our tinsel- strewn, mulled wine fragranced...

This is Eden

Last weekend took Gideon and Mike to Nanjing for a family 5 km race. Gideon narrowly missed first position because he stopped for a...

A missed memo

Street lamps feebly attempted to brighten the dim skyline punctuated with cranes and towering heaps of rubble. The perfect setting for a...

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