Enjoy a proper cooked meal in a warm room, until - gasp, splutter, 21:30! (Only in Palma de Mallorca)
Remember this? I don't mean this particular dinner, Chinese New Year almost one year ago, but
...Smoke Gets in Your Arse
As Kirsty MacColl sang in the legendary Fairytale of New York: "Happy Christmas your arse,
...New rag on the block in the cut-throat world of Mallorcan English language publications
Woo hooo! Celebrations, jubilations! Asians! Everything that ends in -ons and -ans!
Finally I am the editor
FINALLY! Tomorrow marks the launch of long-awaited MallorCAN Relish,
an online magazine about all the great things about Mallorca, in
Trying to create a new identity: Writer
As long as I can remember I have wanted to be a writer, or rather, an author. Oh, to see one's name on the back of a book, and on the front, preferably followed by
...Dog poisoning in Hong Kong and Mallorca
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New island, new language
When I moved from Hong Kong to Spain in 2018, I had this crazy
...You know how they say 'you can't go back'? Well it turns out it should be 'you can't go away.'
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Lockdown is the mother of invention
Yesterday I met a friend "accidentally" in a shopping centre. We cruised around the aisles, masked and be-gloved, trying to look as
Love of Spanish in the time of Coro-lera
Well, I'm officially one of the in-crowd! A few days ago I carried out yet another daring raid. A nearby friend, maybe the same one who lent me the DVDs,
After 30 years in China/Hong Kong where she ran Happy Jellyfish People’s Democratic Language Bureau specialising in making Cantonese a world language with the slogan “Learn Cantonese the Natural Way – from a Norwegian!” Cecilie’s life mission as a “Cantonese Fundamentalist” was to make the whole world speak Cantonese. Failing somewhat in this endeavour she eventually felt the pull of her European roots, and packed up her beloved “gaff” on Lantau Island, scene of hundreds of Sichuan lunches and dinners, in January 2018.
She now lives in Palma de Mallorca with her two dogs, enjoying fresh air and architectural beauty.