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Today is Lily’s adoption day!

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Lily was adopted by our family exactly one year ago today. She joined our family from the Beijing dog shelter, a pretty scared and aggressive little dog. She took a little while [...]

Grandma Milena had a wonderful stay with us

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We were very lucky to have Daphne’s Grandma Milena stay with us in Beijing for the past six months. She arrived in the hot summer and stayed right through to these cold winter days. [...]

We’re off to Tokyo!

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China not being a Christian country, there is no Christmas vacation. At our firm, we give all the staff a couple of days off all the same, but the normal end of year vacation [...]

Beijing Playhouse Kids’ Theatre Camp: A Christmas Carol

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Daphne loves to act. There are very few opportunities for foreign kids to pursue their interest in drama in Beijing, but lucky for us, our good friend Chris Verrill has introduced kids’ theatre camps [...]

This Christmas’ gingerbread house

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Of all the photos we took this Christmas, this one is my favourite.

On December 1st, Daphne and I had spent a fun hour together in the kitchen, making this year’s gingerbread house and [...]

Allegra vita

Allegra vita: a happy life.

Welcome to the family blog of Catherine, Daphne and Simon, three intrepid adventurers at large in China.

We created our domain-name, allegravita.com on new year’s eve, 2007, after many months of prevarication and indecision. Then, on December 31st 2007, just as the family was about to go out to a great [...]