Month: January 2014
Incredible Small Things
I spent some time this weekend updating the appearance of my website. It’s a bit more modern, cleaner and a little ‘sharper’ looking. Speaking of ‘sharper looking’, I also came across a video of an incredible British man named Willard Wigan. He is an artist who produces sculptures that are small enough to fit into […]
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The End of Our Time in Hong Kong
Well. this trip is over. We have had a very pleasant time and enjoyed some great scenery and some wonderful sights during our time in Hong Kong. Yesterday, we had a leisurely day doing some final shopping. We caught the MTR to the eastern End of the island, after adding some value to our very […]
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Hong Kong Highlights
There are so many things to do in Hong Kong. One of them is to catch up with new technology and I visited the Golden Shopping Centre in Sham Shui Po to see what would be on offer. Located diagonally opposite exit C2 from the MTR station,the basement and first floor of this nondescript building […]
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A Day on Cheng Chau
One of the things I like about Hong Kong is that when you get just a few blocks out of the main tourist area, you find yourself immersed in a very Chinese environment that is quite different from the world in which we Westerners come from. Yesterday, we went to the little island of Cheng […]
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A Tour of Hong Kong Island
On Saturday, we took a tour of Hong Kong Island. It was really a tour that first time visitors would do, but we haven’t seen many of the places on the tour for some years and it suited us to see them again without having to exert a lot of effort. The weather is still […]
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Hong Kong Markets
We are spending the next seven days in Hong Kong. We arrived at Hong Kong airport at 5.30 pm yesterday and than caught the airport express train into Kowloon and a shuttle bus to our hotel. All in all, we were checked in to our hotel and in our room by about 6.45 pm. It […]
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