We’re Dom & Emma, and we live in China 🇨🇳

Always Away is where we share everyday life here: what it’s actually like living in China, the food we eat, the places we explore, and the things that catch us off guard.

Before moving to China, we spent years travelling and living on the road. Now we’re based in Shanghai, filming daily life and travel around China.

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There won’t be a video out today but for a good reason! 😅✨

We’ve rented a cabin in a bamboo forest and we’re filming a fun weekend adventure, tallying up the costs of travel in China! Looking forward to sharing this one with you next Sunday!💕📸🇨🇳

6 days ago | [YT] | 132

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Our Chinese House Tour is Now Live! 🏠🇨🇳
We’d love to hear your thoughts! ❤️
https://youtu.be/sfVMbahAWkY

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 63

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The final house tour is incoming! 🏠🇨🇳

Looking at when you guys are on YouTube through or stats it turns out Sunday is the best day for us to be uploading so that’s when we’ll be posting every week from now on.

This week we’re really excited to share our latest house tour, we love living here and we had a lot of fun filming the tour as you’ll be able to see in the video 😂 stay tuned for Sunday! 🫣

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 84

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Currently dealing with a power cut at our apartment so there won’t be a video tonight 😅 But we’ll be back soon with our first 48 hours in Beijing! 🫣❤️

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 79

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Channel Update: ✨Hey! As you know we are awful at being consistent with our uploads haha so we have decided that going forward we will post one video a week and our upload day will be Wednesdays! Our little break from uploading has given me a chance to catch up on editing and get a bit ahead on our videos. 😊

Really excited to share our next two videos, our recent trip to Harbin and Beijing was one of the most memorable we’ve ever done. Our Harbin video will be out next week 🥰🇨🇳

1 month ago | [YT] | 128

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Happy 2026! 💖 Currently sifting through hours of footage from our time Harbin, the coldest city in China. No doubt one of the best trips we've ever had, from sliding down the worlds longest ice slide, to cosplaying as a Russian Princess and eating questionable fried chicken flavoured ice cream. Looking forward to sharing this adventure with you! ✨

1 month ago | [YT] | 129

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Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you're all enjoying the holidays 🥰🎄

We spent our Christmas day on the Great Wall of China, absolutely surreal, but freeeezing 😂 This morning we've just arrived in China's coldest city and now it's -25C here 🫣 Can't wait to share the experience with you! Happy New Year!

1 month ago | [YT] | 181

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Our attempt at a daily vlogmas was shattered by our weekend road trip 🙈

This weekend we rented a car and drove over 400km from Shanghai to a remote mountain village, before almost running out of fuel… and stumbling across an incredible water forest.

Can’t wait to share this adventure with you!

3 months ago | [YT] | 78

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Our luggage got left behind in Beijing while we changed connecting flights, finally the box while all of our clothes made it back to the Uk 5 days after us! We were sure we’d never see it again 😂

11 months ago | [YT] | 49

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There’s been a delay in uploads because we’re struggling to get internet for more than 10 minutes in our current country! We’ll be back uploading by the end of the week 🤞💕

11 months ago | [YT] | 53