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The year began badly, and 2026 has mostly passed in a blur since.

It wasn’t long ago that travelling in China had become an enormous hassle for most foreigners: visas, internet restrictions, real-name registration, and a completely different set of apps that were hard to use unless you were with a local or knew Mandarin.

When we moved to Munich in 2024 I wanted a bicycle, but I could never settle on which one to buy.

My father turned 70 last week.

Chen organised it as a surprise, which she is far better at than I am.

I’m behind on posting this given we’re well into spring, but I wanted to share some photos from winter in and around Munich.

The escalators in Munich’s U-Bahn are bidirectional.

This is my first short story.

I’ve been a WordPress user since 2004.

Tōhoku is the part of Japan that most Japanese think of as countryside.