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January 12th 2017

Published: January 12th 2017

I can not believe it has been 2 years since my last blog! I did so well in that first year of moving to China, writing a blog every month! Then every day life kind of took over.......school and nursery for the boys and then I started to do some voluntary work at a Chinese nursery and that is how life has been! But I finally get a little free time this week to sit down and reflect. So we moved to ... Read Full Entry

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Lindsay Oakes

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Hi, my name is Lindsay and I am from England. I am living as an expat in Teda, about an hours drive from Tianjin China. I am here with my husband Andy and our 2 boys, Matthew who is 7 and William who is 2. We moved here in Feb 2014 and we are hoping for many adventures and to see lots of great things China has to offer! Here's our story...........enjoy! ... full info

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Hutong

Our first ride in a Rickshaw

Wangfujing Street, Beijing

The very busy street where they sell live foods to eat!

Wangfujing Street

so busy!

Wangfujing street

Wangfujing Street

Longqing Gorge, Beijin

One of the most peaceful places I have visited in China! So peaceful and pretty and not very busy so a perfect day out!

Longqing Gorge.

Cable car ride.....

Longqing Gorge

Lovely boat ride....

Longqing Gorge

The glass Viewing Plateform.....Beijing

This is not one of the places I liked very much! Millions of people which means long Ques people pushing past you etc. Then after waiting an hour and a half to get on the cable car, we had another hour and half walk up so very steep steps! Once at the top and on the platform I was really scared because the whole platform bounced as people were moving on it! then we had a 3 hour journey back down!