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 [...]

Ma On Shan Park 馬鞍山公園

Like many HK dwellings, our apartment doesn’t have a garden (well, not our own anyway), nor do we have a balcony to grow decent plants For this reason, there are many gardens/parks in HK for apartment residents to enjoy, stretch their bodies, socialise & kids to play. Plants are well manicured, and rubbish [...]

Hanging out in Hong Kong

Observations of various things hanging in HK

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 [...]

韓国 Korea

Korea trip with the Engstrom girls from Japan, April 2005! Geez that’s a while back. It was nice to see Vivien again as she’s in another far away land now ;-( Seoul was quite interesting – at that time, there seem to be more vibrant than Tokyo (it probably still is), food was delicious everywhere [...]

西貢 Sai Kung

Sai Kung, a waterfront ‘garden’ of Hong Kong, is on the east side (despite the name) of Kowloon/New Territories. No longer a small fishing village, it has developed along with the rest of Hong Kong, but due to its seaside location, distance & limited public transport (no MTR station here… yet), there is a nice [...]

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.

Food in London July ‘09

Not as bad as you think, & certainly as I remember – from my first trip to that side of the world in 2000…
Although the exchange rate has significantly improved (from 25p=AUD1, to 50p=AUD1), prices of food & drinks hasn’t seem to have changed?!?! Definitely there are more proper ‘cafe’ type places around, such as [...]

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 [...]