Catshanghai

Jenny just got her Schengen visa to go to Spain next week. Hurray!
The Schengen agreement allows visitors to travel around continental Europe without requiring a separate visa for each country, although the UK has a separate protocol. This means Chinese visitors need to get a visa for the UK and a Schengen visa for the [...]

In this earlier post I complained about the stress of living in a place where I am “doomed to waste time understanding and being understood.”
This is still an issue or I would not choose to resurrect such a gloomy old blog post. The difference these days is that I am enjoying my summer holidays. [...]

The new Iphone is out, although it is not yet on sale in China. David Feng of Techblog86 has been anticipating the imminent official release of the Iphone in China, although Dan Washburn of Shanghaiist has been assured by local vendors that the new Iphone will soon be selling on the local grey market once [...]

I have started using a VOIP service called Rebtel , which offers cheaper and more convenient Internet based phonecalls than Skype or Gizmo5, which I wrote about last year. See this post.
Rebtel lets you make calls between China and the UK landlines for 1.9 US cents a minute plus 1 jiao a minute for [...]

We got married in March 2006. As a Brit marrying a Chinese girl, we followed the UK Consulate’s guidelines of notarising the wedding certificate so it would be recognised abroad. This has made it relatively easy to get permission to visit the UK and France, although we still have to collect more than a dozen [...]