by Simon Moran | Sep 15, 2019 | Business
When I was at school in England, the law of the time dictated that everybody had to have compulsory education to a certain age. With exceptions for home-schooling and birthdays early in the academic year, this meant, de facto, everybody had to stay at school until the...
by Simon Moran | Sep 2, 2019 | Personal
August in Japan is a reflective month. It features the O-Bon festival, when the spirits of the departed return to their former worldly homes, and the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and is the hottest period of the year, a national...
by Simon Moran | Jul 29, 2019 | English Schools, Personal
We’ve spoken previously about being happy, and an important part of that is having a balanced life. Here at Moran Actually Towers we practice what we preach. We’re taking the whole of August off from the blog. We’ve still got plenty of things to do,...
by Simon Moran | Jul 22, 2019 | Personal
I had a great trip to Shanghai. My third or fourth time there. I was originally supposed to go there from Hong Kong in 1994, then take the ferry to Osaka. I was waylaid by matters of the heart and a reservation with a 3 p.m. sunset in Whitley Bay. It was great to see...
