Picture in the Picture: Chinglish

While in China, we talked about “Chinglish”, the Chinese English that sometimes is a little bit hard to understand and can be very funny sometimes. We already published a fine example of English translation “free style” and while going through our pictures recently, we found a few more examples, that we really think deserve to […]

Picture in the Picture: Early morning solitude

This picture was taken in the gardens around the Temple of Heaven in Beijing early in the morning. Beijing is one big mess of cars, people, bikes and the general “Chinese-loudness”. But if you have the courage to get up early enough in the morning and walk through the different gardens scattered over town, you […]

Picture in the Picture: Fresh!

This picture definitely says it all in South-East Asia: fresh products rule! Vera & Jean-Christophe

Picture in the Picture: Overloaded minibus

Buses, bikes, minivans… everything tends to get overloaded in Asia.

Pic’ in the Picture: A small lesson about yurts

This Picture in the Picture talks about Mongolian ghers: the main house for nomads who live on the rough steppes and whom we had the chance to meet while traveling Mongolia.

Pic’ in the Picture: A different idea of business

In Asia, business is either more extreme or much more relaxed. Especially in South-East Asia, people don’t take “customer care” as serious as we do.

Pic’ in the Picture: Curious buddhas

A new category: picture in the picture. In this article we talk about what happens when buddhas become too old to be of service.

Our theory on the Moai…

There are many theories about how the Rapa Nui moved the Moais from the quarry to their Ahu. Here is our own!