Special thanks to our InterNations Ambassadors Oliver Radtke and Roman Lange for taking the photos.

Our InterNations Beijing Ambassador Oliver Radtke organized a special Forbidden City Tour only for InterNations members. What a great idea! Watch the amazing expedition with the experienced tour guide Peter here! Enjoy, and thank you Oliver for making this possible!

These photos belong to flickr user http2007 and are used under the Creative Commons License,

At the December gathering, the Beijing InterNations members spent a wonderful and relaxing evening at Frank’s Place. Dozens of expats showed up and filled the downstairs floor, which was reserved for the InterNations members only. Everyone was happy to connect and exchange information on life in China as well as their previous international experience.

Thanks to Oliver Radtke, the InterNations Ambassador for Beijing, Vera Penêda from the local expat press had the chance to attend the Get-Together as well. You can have a look at her article about InterNations, that was published in “that’s Bejing” on their webpage here.

(Thanks a lot, Kiran, for these charming snapshots! There are more of them in this InterNations photo album.)

Although the Siberian wind was blowing hard outside, a sizable number of members from the InterNations Beijing Community met up for a relaxing Get-Together at Frank’s Place in the Lido area on December 4th. Ambassador Oliver Radtke had the privilege to introduce Beijing’s new Co-Ambassador Eric Diverres from France, who had moved to China with his family from Egypt earlier this year.

“I am confident that as a team we will be able to find more and fun places for the Beijing community”, Oliver said. At Frank’s Place, even the local press was present. Vera Peneda from ‘That’s Beijing’ magazine, also an InterNations member, will do a report about the network for the January issue.

Since our Ambassador for the InterNations Community in Canton, Andrea D’Ippolito, had gone back to Italy for the month of October, in order to celebrate his wedding, InterNations member Howard Klooster was kind enough to take over his task and organize a regular Get-Together in his stead. Expatriates from the Netherlands, Singapore, Finnland, Russia, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Austria as well as Chinese guests gathered for a dinner at 90 Bar Country, a Western-style restaurant with a large subtropical garden and a good view of Guangzhou’s Pearl River, to enjoy a bit of socializing with their InterNations contacts again.

(You can see all of Howard’s event photos here.)

The InterNations Community in Hong Kong had more than one reason to party last night: The 1000th member had recently joined their ranks; Kiran Denniz had offered to support Marcus Merheim as our second Ambassador in the Asian metropolis from now on; quite a few of the guests (including our Ambassadors) had recently had celebrated their birthday, and it was also time to start with some warm-up festivities for Halloween.

No wonder that the Beso Bar in SoHo — already covered in spooky decorations — was packed, and everybody could enjoy the Happy Hour cocktails, the complimentary tapas, and some spectacular-looking ‘Flaming Lamborghinis’ to their heart’s content. Moreover, eight InterNations members also emerged as lucky winners from the Beso’s prize draw, with $200 worth of ‘Beso’s pesos’ as gift vouchers for their next visit.

Congratulations on an all-around lovely evening!

(Kiran has uploaded more photos here.)

The name of Hooley‘s Irish Pub – to which our Guangzhou Ambassador Andrea D’Ippolito invited his guests for their latest get-together – is derived from an Irish colloquialism for a boisterous, noisy, merry party: A merry time they all certainly had when they met up on the night of Friday, September 12. The Hooley’s staff was generous enough to offer our members happy hour prices in the early evening before the live music gig started and the crowd began to rock the house. Have a look at Andrea’s pictures and share the effervescent mood of that night!