A Preface

Hello everyone, I know long time no posting. Well the truth of the matter is that the last month has been incredibly manic. We’ve done a lot of travelling, a lot of train journeys, a lot of flights and a shocking amount of all you can eat buffets. Throw in training and setting up the furniture at a new house and one can certainly say that we haven’t had a lot of time to actually sit down in write. In fact things could probably be best summarised by this image of Hector…in his temporary bath tub.

That said I would really hate to just breeze over and not bother at all at documenting the events of the past 4 weeks. So over the next few days I will be making posts from the past. That is to say, I’ll be doing my best to make up for lost ground by writing blog posts which I would have written over the past month if I were in possession of a time turner. (AKA that horrible plot device JK Rowling came up with to ostensibly ruin her own fictional universe)

So you can look forward to the following posts:

1. Flying to China and arriving in Hangzhou.
2. Going to Nanjing, haphazardly travelling China with a toddler (Perhaps not a great idea)
3. Going to Luoyang and being robbed along the way-also some really awesome caves and haphazardly climbing a mountain with a toddler. (Perhaps ALSO not a great idea).
4. Going to Xi’an and seeing the terracotta army and haphazardly trying to keep a toddler entertained for 2 hours whilst waiting for a fountain show to kick off. (Just a horrible idea)
5. Going to Shanghai Disneyland and making the most out of it whilst being dumped on by rain.
6. Coming back to Hangzhou, meeting colleagues, settling into our new apartment just before being flung into training on the beach.
7. Coming back to Hangzhou (Again) and acclimatizing to the new normal…whilst preparing for work.

Way I figure it, years from now no one will notice that I wrote all these posts weeks after the fact…