Last week or something I met a guy in the elevator of my building. He is from Nigeria, has studied in the States and is now en route to London to continue his study. We chatted a bit and after learning that I had spent time in China, he said that his plan is to [...]
flaw in Google Chrome
With pain in my heart I have to confess that Google’s new browser Chrome is not perfect It’s super-fast, you can have a very large number of tabs open while you’re browsing, but there is one major problem that will affect ALL people who live in countries other than their home country and cannot or [...]
visa regulations tightened for Chinese coming to Europe
A recent post on China Herald is about visa-regulations for Chinese people wanting to go to Europe. Dutch companies who want to invite staff or business partners to the Netherlands face now new barriers to get visas, business people in China and Hong Kong complain. Well actually the article is about Dutch businesses in Hong [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 18
Beautiful morning, took some photos from my hotel, so Mia could also enjoy the new environment a bit Discovered that bloody Movistar (from Telefonica), where I bought my prepaid phone card from yesterday, doesn’t have an agreement with China Mobile and therefore sms is not possible between Spain and China on their network. Luckily Skype [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 13
With the train I went to Rotterdam to attend the wedding of Lianne and Geert-Jan. Ten years ago Lianne wheelbarrowed me into the job as tour-leader so basically she is the one to “blame” for my prolonged stay in China The ceremony was in the park of the Euromast, Het Heerenhuys, which used to be [...]
move to Valencia – Sept 11
Nice to have a good ol’ Dutch breakfast again. Real brown bread with old cheese and all kinds of meats, yummie! Bought a new phone (Nokia 6300) and a Dutch number so finally I was mobile again. I booked my flight to Valencia, walked the dog and cooked Rene’s favourite dish from China: coca-cola chicken.
2 days and a bit left
Only 2 days and a bit are left now before I leave China after my 10 year stay here. On Friday the movers came to pack our stuff. They were 45 minutes early and out within 2 hours. In the afternoon we had lunch at Mosto, the brand new restaurant in the new Nali Mall [...]
the point of no return
It seems inevitable that my 10yr stay in China will abruptly come to an end on September 9 this year. Last week I heard that my residence visa cannot be extended. During the last few days I have been drilling into my network for solutions, but during these Olympic times, with regulations tighter than ever [...]
Snippets intro
What is it with blogs? About a year ago I started writing a blog. Obviously the start was enthusiastically, but within a couple of months I found less time and/or energy to write about stuff that happened in my life. This year March I decided to get rid of it altogether, because I hadn’t been [...]
