I’m Amy, an explorer of real and fictional worlds. A word huntress. An escape artist. A page traveller. I started this blog in 2015 when I was living as an expat in Hong Kong, as a way to keep in touch with friends and family back home. Later, I wrote about my backpacking adventures in Southeast Asia and Mexico, as well as my other experiences living overseas in Italy and Thailand. Two years ago, I started my next chapter as a digital nomad and travelling cat mom. And of course, I’ve been journeying through books all that time, too…
Red lanterns are up, the banks are packed and preparations are well underway for Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival. So, here are 10 surprising facts about Chinese New Year that I’ve learnt during my time in HK: Before I started living in Hong Kong, I thought CNY was all firecrackers, dumplings and fun […]
So the question is… “Why now?” It danced around my brain as I literally googled, “How to start a blog,” elected a domain name and navigated my way around WordPress. It repeated itself like a catchy jingle as I opened a new Word document to draft the first post and – for once – didn’t […]