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Beyond the Highrise

Life in Hong Kong in the words of an expat freelance journalist

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Recent Posts

  • Fun for all on Sentosa
  • There’s a T Rex in town
  • Discover your inner creative in the Greek islands
  • Singapore zing
  • Mother love

Travel features

  • Borneo
  • Malaysia – Legoland
  • Indonesia
  • Laos
  • Australia
  • Macau
  • Thailand
  • Hong Kong for locals
  • Copenhagen with kids
  • Miss Saigon
  • Mallorca

Interviews

  • Everything’s rosy
  • Lonely planet
  • Old hands breathe new life into Sai Kung’s favourite pub
  • How an expat childhood inspired Soho’s New Punjab Club
  • Talking rhymes and writers block with Julia Donaldson
  • Travel writer Isabelle Demenge on putting the fun into family getaways
  • A meditation in education
  • The wonder from Down Under
  • Nurturing young readers with tales of the Chinese zodiac
  • Sketching Hong Kong with artist Lorette Roberts
  • How to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days (and survive to tell the tale)
  • Women’s advocate Dame Barbara Stocking on girls and smashing those glass ceilings
  • Novelist Madeleine Thien talks China and change
  • Nurturing a Hong Kong boutique into a global brand
  • Hong Kong’s first women’s TEDx event is launched
  • Hong Kong film producer Joanna Bowers releases The Helper Documentary
  • Mother love
  • From London to Paris on foot and by bicycle

Heritage Hong Kong

  • Time for tea with the grande dame of Midlevels
  • Hospital drama – discovering the real Matilda of The Peak
  • Life as a British expat ‘back in the day’

Flailing spouse – a lighter look at expat life

  • October – Food for thought
  • November – Running woman
  • December – Away in a 777
  • January – Communing with the grandparents
  • February – When I’m 45…
  • March – Homework and other issues
  • April – Drama queen
  • May – From the heart
  • June – Turn on, tune in, drop out

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Lazy summer afternoons... #nofilter #therellalwaysbeanengland #brunch
Morning walk - it’s 7.30am and the sun is streaming through the trees in beautiful Berkshire. Sunrise around 4.45 this morning. Just stunning #beautifulbritain #therellalwaysbeanengland #nofilter
Big congratulations to April’s interviewees, David Gething and Mayank Vaid. They just successfully completed their epic 288 mike challenge to cycle, swim and run from London to Paris - raising enough money to sponsor 288 under-privileged ethnic minority children in Hong Kong. Donations can still be made at www.simplygiving.com/every-mile-matters-288 #charity #zubinfoundation #arctoarch #allforcharity
The Beef & Liberty Eton Mess - available from today until August 19... Yum 😋! #englishpuds #etonmess #summerdesserts #hongkongfoodie #foodie #strawberries
‘Final Proof’ - that’s the chop we’re looking 👀 for today! July deadline done ✅ and dusted! The magazine is out next week #loveprintmedia #editorslife #print #magazine #happyholidays
Last day of school coming right up!! It’s mid-year break for my three little Aussies, and end-of-year for my Brit teen (IGCSEs next year aghhh 😱!!). But before all that we have a month in Europe to look 👀 forward to! Happy days and it’ll be nice to escape the HK heat ☀️ for a little bit. Off to stock the cupboard with Doritos as there’s BOUND to be an end-of-term party 🎈 I’ve forgotten about... #schoolsoutforsummer #endofterm #happykids #summerholidays

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