Les M&M's

Let's start dispelling some of the common beliefs or stereotypes about China.  "In China you won't find yogurts", we w...

You saw our pictures from the Ritan Park . But how is the Beijing "outside"? Well, it's difficult to describe a 22+ mill...

A due passi da casa nostra c'è il Ritan Park, un'oasi di pace nella downtown Pechinese…

For those that immediately mocked me for the previous post (the classic Italian: pizza, pasta, mandolino - who cannot live for three days...

Buoni i noodles . Ottimi i dumplings . Ma tempo tre giorni e la cosa che desideravo maggiormente era una bella pizza… Da "Rocco...

Fa sempre un po' effetto vedersi in TV . Sembra che ci sia un'altra persona...

On Friday we went visiting the French International School of Beijing, the school that, starting from Monday, Leo and Tommy will attend. ...

Well, yes, after McDonald's in the 80s, Starbucks later, and many other international franchising, also Ikea landed in China. A sign o...

When I was a kid, we used to have regular Chinese dinners at my grandma. According to a family legend that has been passed on and on, th...

In the country that - hard to admit for an Italian, but it's historically proven - invented the spaghetti, our first dinner in Beijing...

Many of my "generation" do certainly remember their first flight. Mine was a Milan-Rome in a grey day of February 1984 to ce...

How did the kids take the announcement that we would move to China? Well, as it could be expected, they went through ups and downs. ...

It may be a coincidence - or maybe not - but the Blog re-starts, after three years of inactivity, precisely where it stopped: in China. ...

That of ‘the world is small’ and of the ‘chance encounters’ around the world is a recurrent theme in our Blog (ref. to Emanuele , Henrik ...

Mathilde says that, food-wise, I am spoiled. And she is right: after one week on mission I am craving for a plate of pasta, a mozzar...

While Matteo is running around Asia like a spinning top (after Ulan Bator and Manila , I am heading to Nanchang  for a few days, then Sha...

And after Ulan Bator , 8 hour flight and 61 degree Celsius later, Manila!

Fa anche rima! (it rhymes as well!)

Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khaan in Mongol) was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history. Renowned for ...

Vast, endless, pristine, essential… Mongolia has been for long long time one of my top three dream destinations (the other two are  Patag...

Not sure I mentioned it yet, but since October last year, in addition to the China portfolio , I am now responsible of the Mongolia portf...

Apologizes for the delay: a very happy new year from Les M&M’s! A quick reportage of our Christmas trip to Sicily, before going ...

That of ‘the world is small’ is a recurrent theme in our Blog. Moreover, lately, for a strange stars’ alignment, I have been accidental...

- Leo, what was the thing that you liked more in Ischia? - The excavator…

The beauty of parenthood is that many of the things you have been doing for years, suddenly become exciting again as your children experie...