Saturday activities in Lamma Island

This is the first time we ventured out to the outlying islands (for almost 2 years we’ve been in&out of HK, of course excluding HK and Lantau islands )

The day started well with a bus ride straight to Central to meet our friends. We even managed to get some tasty Chinese breakfast at the [...]

Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節

Mid Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival, all one and the same thing, was yesterday (3 October 2009). There’s lots of history behind this Chinese festival, from story of war-torn era with hidden secret slip inside mooncakes (George told me that yesterday) to legend of beautiful princess (hence the decoration on some mooncake boxes… again [...]

香港行山　HK Hiking

Hiking in Hong Kong, gets mentioned in guidebooks, but I don’t think many tourists do it (unless you’ve come well prepared, including choosing the winter months! & not too interested in other glittering pleasures of Hong Kong, such as shopping & dining).
This one is when we hiked from Ma On Shan to Sai Kung, not [...]

香港照明　Hong Kong Illuminations

There’s no doubt that people in HK (& of course China!) loves to decorate their towns, homes, schools, shopping malls, parks… Here are some examples that we’ve captured on photos so far.

高尾山・卯かい懐石 Kaiseki experience in Takaozan

It was Mike’s first time in Japan (therefore, Tokyo) & it was very nice of mum & dad to take us to a trip up (well, sort of, to the foothills) to Mt Takao, a Michellin travel guide 3 star tourist destination, to enjoy the first of autumn colours, as well as a Kaiseki lunch [...]