Back when I was studying Chinese in the early 1990s, people would often question why I’d chosen such a mad subject for my degree. China’s

Taste Tibet is the result of a chance encounter on a mountain path in northern India (above) on Friday 13th November 2009. The date that

The dark days of winter are here. In Tibet there’s no change of the clocks. Hilariously, all of China (Tibet included) goes by Beijing time,

This week it’s half term, and we’re winning at parenting already. Yesterday we took the kids to Bletchley Park, the one-time secret base of the

When Yeshi and his brother Nyima arrived home in Tibet one Wednesday morning in April after an absence of 25 and 35 years respectively, a

Yeshi’s recent health scare (thank you all for your concern) has taught us about a medical condition that he had never heard of before, despite