I’m sure many of us have a number of sits lined up for the year. Which one in particular has you really looking forward to starting? In the middle of summer I am headed to a wonderful house, deep in the woods of the English south. The dog is an adorable rascal who I have watched grow up, my bedro…

If you’re into Chinese food, Vancouver has some of the world’s best, because of the heavy concentration of immigrants who arrived pre-1997, when the British had to hand over Hong Kong back to China. They established many businesses as part of immigration requirements and that has snowballed over dec…

You’re right about buses/coaches being cheaper and I’ll probably use Flixbus. It’s a shame that they stopped the Interflix ticket. I stated rail because the price of an EU Interail tickets was advertised as “starting from”, in much the same way as budget airlines. As most people know the headline pr…

Thanks, it is definitely on the agenda. Many Chinese citizens were brought over in the 1880s to help build the Canadian Pacific railway. They were treated very poorly. Many stayed in BC after construction was completed. Parks Canada - Chinese Construction Workers on the Canadian Pacific Railway …

Yes, similar with U.S. railroads and Chinese workers. They got the worst/most dangerous jobs and were treated badly. With the boom in Vancouver in particular, the gov’t intentionally attracted affluent Chinese immigrants — they had to invest, starting with $500k in capital and creating X number of …

I’m doing an old ginger Tom cat sit in June but the best thing about this sit I’m led to believe is the garden! How lovely to have a week in a beautiful garden where I can sit and read all day. The elderly ginger cat is an indoor/outdoor cat who I’m told might simply ignore me and not to worry …

What, no Broadway shows? The only reason I visit New York these days now that I’ve been to their museums.

I have sit scheduled for next month on Chincoteague Island, US. The next island over is famous for it’s wild ponies. I’ve always wanted to go there. I can’t wait!

At Christmas I sat for 30 animals, 6 ALPACAS, 5 SHEEP, 17 CHICKENS, and 2 CATS Yesterday I was invited back for a week in May, with even more animals this time, 39 animals 6 ALPACAS, 7 SHEEP, ( 2 pregnant ZWARTBALD sheep are returning, with hopefully 6 Lambs, yet to be born, 2 sets of triplets) 1…

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@TheEnglishFlaneur use a bus company called Luxexpress for the Baltics over Flix.

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