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When things go wrong with your E-bike! E-bikes are a great thing in China, they are very reasonably priced and allow you to travel to places without having to rely on taxis. I have had [...]

Trip to Qingdao We started the month with a trip to the beautiful Qingdao. We visited the Zhanshan Temple, May Fourth Square, Zhongshan Park, Bathing Beach, Qingdao Aquarium, and the Taidong Pedestrian Street night market. [...]

Company Party with the students After a very challenging year we were fortunate enough to be able to celebrate Christmas in a relatively normal way. In fact, this year Christmas was bigger than ever before! [...]

It all started with a tired voice...... Around September time we welcomed a new group of teachers at M.E.F. They came to Jinan to meet the team and were scheduled for training at my school. [...]

Meeting new people in Jinan is much easier when you know where most of the expats go at the weekends. As Jinan is ever growing we have new nightclubs and bars opening up every few [...]

We decided to spend a few days in Shanghai and Beijing over the holidays to do some more exploring! Three hours before we were supposed to leave for the airport my apartment door handle fell [...]

Jinan is the capital city of Shandong province and it’s where I have lived for 1 ½ years. It has beautiful attractions, lots of shopping malls and too many restaurants to count. Here are the [...]

Living in the Birmingham, the second largest city in the UK, I was used to seeing gridlocked roads filled with cars, lorries, vans and the odd motorbike or bicycle. I was used to being [...]

Expectations Six months ago, I had never visited Asia, or even spent more than 7 days outside of the UK. The thought of moving to China was exciting but also terrifying. My family thought I [...]