Growing up, I remember finding fat cigar stubs strewn across the floor surrounding pretty much all tourism sites throughout the UK and around Europe. They were the remnants left by American tourists, it turned out. This was in the 80s. Wealthy Americans were definitely the big spenders as they splashed out on week-long trips that…
After the last big UK lockdown of 2021, I scrambled to get out of the UK whilst I could. I decided to flee the country and arrive in China early before my contract with a Chinese university began: In case another lockdown took place, or even before travel restrictions worsened and delayed, or even completely…
When I went on a short holiday to Shanghai in 2017, I’d not long since started hesitantly using Apple Pay in the UK. Welcome to the 21st Century. But I was genuinely put to shame wherever I went in Shanghai, as I was literally the only person using cask. Even the most mature of people…
