This short, relaxing, amusing book discusses experiences learning Mandarin Chinese in London and Taiwan with some ideas and suggestions. The wonderful experience of working as a Chinese immigration advisor in England using Mandarin Chinese. Summer train journeys from Charing Cross station through the English countryside to see clients with delicious lunches taken in restaurants from Bayswater in London to Dover in Kent. Teaching English in Indonesia and how to write more interesting Chinese characters or learn with memory systems and via language exchanges.