Hi friends! I’m writing to you because my Great Tour of Australia is in the works and I’m hoping for your help! I’m planning to be in the Canberra-Sydney area August 6th-13th, Newcastle around the 14th-15th, Melbourne about the 19th-24th, and Perth/Kalgoorlie about the 25th-29th. (Only the arrival and departure dates are confirmed, the rest…
Hi everyone, In this update: moving to Beijing cat to good home info on my upcoming album I am getting very excited about moving back to Beijing. I’m looking for a place together with the lovely Bec. She and I shared a flat in Wangjing for 6 months before I moved to Langfang and I…
Hi everyone, This weekend was youth campference – it was awesome! I missed half of Saturday so I could attend (and sing at) a good friend’s wedding, but I was there for the rest of the weekend. I was so excited to hang out with my kids and meet new kids. Knowing that I’ll soon…
Hi everyone! Firstly, I want to thank all of you who replied to my last update with words of support. Wow. You rendered me (nearly) speechless – quite the acheivement! It was a difficult decision and although I was already convinced I had made the right choice, your encouragement means SO much. It’s easy for…
Hi everyone! Happy new year, both solar and lunar! The Year of the Tiger is upon us – and it’s shaping up to be an exciting year for me… I spent a lot of time over the past 9 months thinking about my future – what I want to do and where I want to…
Finally, here it is, the last installment of my travelogue. This section is about Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. We were only there for two days but it was fun, and involved pandas! Facts about Chengdu (成都): Chengdu was the birthplace of the first widely used paper money in the world (Northern Song Dynasty,…
Welcome to part 4, the penultimate portion of my travelogue! It’s a long one, especially given that it covers a single 24 hour period, but Jiuzhaigou is a pretty amazing place – definitely a highlight of the trip for all of us. Neither words nor pictures can really explain it, but I’m having a whirl…
Welcome to Part 3 of my travelogue (as it has been dubbed by several of you, my faithful readers!) from my trip to Yunnan and Sichuan with my parents back in October (has it really been two months already??). Part 2 ended with our flight from Lijiang to Jinghong, the capital of Xishuangbanna, a Dai…
Wow! I was a little worried that all these travel emails would just be a form of spam, but it seems a lot of you really enjoyed the first installment! Thanks so much to all of you who wrote to tell me :) At the end of part one we drove through the mountains from…
I’m going to be breaking up the travel stories into several emails – we went to so many places (and took so many photos), that to do it all justice would mean one mammoth email! So I’m making it… not exactly bite-size, but less of a full banquet. Again, I know this stuff won’t interest…
Hi everyone, I am back from my trip to Australia. I had a WONDERFUL time seeing friends and family, and Natasha and Dante’s wedding day was absolutely PERFECT! My poor body is a little confused by all the temperature changes but at least the central heating is on at home. My living room stays about 19 (66)…
Well, hello there! Autumn has well and truly arrived! The warmest room of my house is usually about 18 C (65 F) and I wear a coat and scarf pretty much every day. Tops are still double digits (50s F), but that won’t last long. We’re due to get negative overnight temperatures (20s F) from…
Stories From Tanya 