Airbnb - from Beijing Just reflecting on a beautiful experience of hosting my Airbnb guest from Beijing for 30 days. It could have turned out to be a nightmare as Stella was a bit lost on arrival as it was her first visit to Uk , actually her only other visit outside China was two weeks in Thailand and had been in covid lockdown for 3 years on her university campus. Also Stella could not cook but had brought her rice steam cooker with her. But it turned into an opportunity to help someone in need. I offered a bike for her to get to work which was about 2.5 miles away or she could have walked. But we worked out how to use the local buses 411, 261 West Molesey to Teddington , using contactless cards and it takes Oyster. Actually I learnt a lot about public transport routes and costs. So, I decided that the only way that her stay was going to work was that I cooked an evening meal for her. Even on the long weekends that I was away, meals were left in the fridge or freezer so that sh...
