Asia
All the trips in the continent of Asia
2 Quick visits to Singapore
Been to the beautiful country of Singapore twice and both times were ridiculously short visits. Singapore should be visited with more time and money. But I’ve visited it twice because I had a good friend living there and when you…
Teaching English in Jinan, China
I think I’ve been avoiding this topic too long. I’ve been missing China a lot lately so therefore it felt extremely hard to start writing about it. But I’ve avoided it long enough. It’s time for me to take a…
Traveling through Vietnam
In 2012 we were about to leave our home in Jinan, China and head back towards Europe. Before doing that we decided that we’d want to travel and explore Asia. So Mr Merry designed a plan to travel through China…
A quick visit to Japan
In 2016 we were living in Australia and we fell pregnant. I then learnt that my childhood thought of women being at their best as pregnant was not applicable with me, so we decided to leave Australia and head to…
Thousand Buddha Mountain in Jinan, China
So excited to get to tell you about my favourite place in Jinan, but before that, I’ll tell you a little bit on how did I even got myself to China: In 2011 I was living my dream: I was…
China’s Big Cities: Beijing & Shanghai
I lived in ‘small’ Jinan (at the time around 6 million people) so most of my memories of China are from Shandong area. But I was privileged enough to visit Shanghai several times and Beijing once as well. Shanghai I’ve…
Cambodia
Ugh, I have really struggled to start this post. First I was just so excited about Cambodia, but ,after looking through our pictures from Phnom Penh, all these horrifying images of skulls and faces of people massacred in Cambodia came…
Orca Encounters
What is your spiritual animal? Favourite animal that somewhat reminds you of yourself? Mine is the orca, also known as killer whale. The more deep I get to the orca world, the more I feel like it really is my…
My Bucket List 6 Destinations
I have a six country Bucket List in my head. I think it’s more feasible than ‘I want to see every country in the world’. And this list mostly stems out my childhood board game called World Tour. I got…
China: Taishan (Mount Tai, 泰山)
I lived in China for a year (2011-2012), so I have seen a fair bit of China. I decided to chop up some of these China stories, so it’s easier to read and find. I’m starting with Taishan, one of…