After 18 months away from Asia, I finally headed back. Back in the saddle!
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Back in the Saddle
Blurry trip from the airport 
Up at the crack of dawn the next morning … I was so used to living on the ‘other’ side of the world and travelling East to reach Asia that I often felt quite disorientated with time. 
The Bund, Shanghai 
Morning boats 
Hiking Hong Kong 
High-rise living 
Tanja & Edgar! 
Reminders of the little nooks and crannies that Taiwanese people would take over … lovely to see the same thing in Hong Kong. 
Play time 
Good times … all rather different now with a car … and a walking talking addition to the family! 
Panorama 
Views out to the island 
Great to have access from their back door 
Urban vertical sprawl 
Down into Mongkok and Kowloon 
Ello Dad 
Out at Discovery Bay … kind of like Disneyland, but you live there. 
Water world 
Couldn’t believe I caught this one – a guy was carrying a dragon’s mask and some shopping as I was waiting for a taxi in Shenzhen 
View up the street in Shanghai 
Some random digging 
Young chefs -
How to Pack Your Life into Boxes
How to pack your life into boxes, in 12 easy steps:
1. Identify the most important things in your life and loosely throw them into the living room 
2. Invite a team of highly-trained strangers into your life, with inappropriately large amounts of packing material. 
3. Stand there helpless as they start work. Nod and say yes to whatever questions they pose to you. 
4. Marvel at the amazing lengths they go to, to pack every single thing you own (since you have a huge 20ft container it doesn't what you take anyway) 
5. Go outside to get away from the insanity. Consider taking up smoking. 
6. Stare lovingly at your prized possessions, before the inevitable happens. 
7. Marvel (and shake your head repeatedly) at the volume of stuff you seem to have accumulated. 
8. Wander around as you pathetically fail help them do their job. 
9. Choose around now in the process to look for very important visa documentation, that has accidentally packed away. 
10. Stand outside looking at the truck, as would a small child watching a construction site. 
NOTE: The final things that should be packed, and the first to be shipped, should be your computing equipment. Stop your iTunes sync halfway through completion to make sure you have no complete albums for the trip ahead. 
11. Wave goodbye to your stuff, as it might be the last time you see it. 
12. Inform your friends it is now too late to return borrowed items. Voila!
