Daily Archives: Sunday, August 24, 2025

Countdown to Sixty – Part 4: The Chorus: Language, Travel, Law, and the Art of Reading the World

🎂📚 Countdown to Sixty – Part 4 is live 🌍🎸 Tomorrow is the last one of the series, so enjoy today’s penultimate ramble while the cake defrosts. 😅 What’s inside (no spoilers, just crumbs): How a Valentine’s Day misread in Mexico taught me that meanings change by postcode. The Shenzhen Metro puzzle: Chinese/Cantonese/English station names that are not twins… cue several heroic wrong exits. Home life in Itanol (Italian + Spanish), with strategic Japanese nouns and the occasional sentence that forgets which language it started in. Choosing family over the travelling-manager life, on purpose. Health as a strict teacher: I…

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