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Day One: The road to India
I recently found myself in India as part of a business delegation with British Prime Minister David Cameron and five of his cabinet colleagues as part of the largest trade mission to set out from the UK for, well, a long time.
Postcard from... Guangzhou
When Wragge & Co announced it was opening an office in Guangzhou, within minutes I’d tapped out a speculative email volunteering for any future secondments.
Postcard from... Glastonbury
Glastonbury has it all: 1,000 acres of Somerset is turned for a week in June into a city within a steel ring.
Postcard from... Tanzania
Tanzania is a stunning and vibrant country and it has the advantage of political stability coupled with excellent economic opportunities as an emerging market.
Postcard from... Montevideo
When I broke the news to friends and family that I was moving to Uruguay for work, the reaction of most people was “Uruwhere”? Some of the enlightened few could muster two words: “Punta” and “Este”; others were speechless.
Postcard from... Abu Dhabi
My wife and I moved to Abu Dhabi eight months ago. This has been an exciting time in both our lives. I’ve transferred from my firm’s London office to Abu Dhabi, we have a new home, it’s my wife’s first visit to the Middle East, and we’re also expecting a new addition to our family later this year.
Postcard from... Astana
Astana is officially the second coldest capital in the world, number one being neighbouring Mongolia’s Ulan Bator.
Postcard from...Brussels
“I only meant to stay for six months” is a common refrain among non-Belgians here in Brussels, a city where people come for work and stay for the lifestyle in a place that has much more to offer than waffles, chocolate and Tintin. Brussels is a good city to visit, but a great place to live.
Postcard from...Bangkok
There were a number of reasons why I applied for a seat in Bangkok: I’d spent some time here in the past and was curious to see how different expat life would be to the backpacker life I had already experienced.
Postcard from...Croatia
Almost 20 years after former Yugoslavia started falling apart, my job is more regional than ever before. Yesterday I was in Sarajevo, today at home in Zagreb and tomorrow I will be in our Ljubljana office, where I actually spend most of my working time.
Postcard from... Mongolia
In the latest of our ’Postcard from…’ series, Sarah Henderson shares her experience of life in Mongolia:
Postcard from... Singapore
?In the latest of our ’Postcard from…’ series, Hill Dickinson associate Andrew Lee shares his experiences of life in Singapore:
Postcard from... Kinshasa
Just out of Kinshasa airport, without too many problems this time as I did not forget my yellow fever certificate and the border police officers only spent 10 minutes discussing whether the 08 for August as the validity end date of my visa is not actually 03 for March, but managed to sort out this issue without them trying to impose any ’fines’.
Postcard from... Almaty, Kazakhstan
After growing up in the Northeast of Kazakhstan, I moved to Almaty in 1991 to pursue a career in law. Having lived here now for nearly 20 years, I can happily call it my home.
Postcard from ... Tel Aviv
This postcard is from the city that never sleeps - New York, you ask? No - Tel Aviv! I came here for a month and never left.
Postcard from... Saudi Arabia
Living in Saudi Arabia as a lawyer means a lot of travel, because you are covering a country roughly the size of Western Europe, with its main business centres Jeddah on the Red Sea, Riyadh in the centre and Dammam on the Arabian Gulf, plus a fair number of out-of-country meetings in neighbouring Dubai and Bahrain.
Postcard from... Port Moresby
Greetings from Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, the country which is often referred to as the “land of the unexpected”.
Postcard from... Beijing
As I look out of the taxi window on my rides through the city these days, I see large red banners with four golden characters framing the doors of almost every home and store in Beijing.
Postcard from... Hong Kong
Vibrant and vertiginous, Hong Kong is home to one of the world’s finest collection of skyscrapers, the third busiest container port in the world, and the tailor with the world speed record for making a suit (one hour, 50 minutes and two seconds if you’re interested).
Postcard from... Perth
Perth is nestled on the banks of the Swan River in Western Australia. From my office window I can see blue sky reflected off the water of the river with one solitary boat cruising by.
Postcard from... Hong Kong
My firm Gide Loyrette Nouel invited me to work in their Hong Kong office for six months as a precursor to starting my training contract in the London office and I was eager to get as much out of the work placement as humanly possible.
Postcard from... Budapest
It has been five months since I first arrived in Budapest, Hungary for my six-month secondment as a trainee solicitor and I can say, without hesitation, that it has been a fantastic experience.
