the view from fanling

In case you’re wondering about the quasi-algebraic title of this post, it is based on the original meaning of the word ‘quarantine’, which d...

The first thing that I noticed upon arriving at Frankfurt Airport on our way back to Hong Kong was the polished granite floors. No! That’s n...

Following this summer’s sojourn in the UK, I expected to be offline for five days as we made our way back to Hong Kong for the winter. It al...

When we did the bike ride that I described in Appleby Sauce , which included no fewer than seven villages that I’d never visited in my entir...