I last spoke with you all at Copenhagen Airport, where I was awaiting my connecting flight back to Heathrow. I explained about the problems we had leaving Hong Kong (which many of you had read about in the news overnight), thanked you all, and signed off, fulling expecting a dull hour or so flying back […]
It’s 6.30am and I’m at Copenhagen airport awaiting my connecting flight to London, having had no problem leaving troubled Hong Kong. As soon as my phone picked up a signal, it was deluged with pop-up notifications from the South China Morning Post and other sources that have been such a feature of our time in […]
Today is my farewell day, after a fantastic month of plying back and forth in the South China Sea. Thanks so much for your company along the way. I was considering one last route to round things off, and toyed for a while with the idea of a long, high-speed trip across to Macau or […]
Without a ferry in sight, the MTR delivered me to Tai Wai Station, Sha Tin, to try out a bike route recommended by the hotel, a few Hong Kong websites, and my cousin Robert! It runs for about fourteen miles right around Tolo Harbour, completely on cycle lanes, ending on an island in the Plover […]
STOP PRESS – “COMMENTS” PROBLEMS…I’m sorry to hear than many of you have been having problems leaving comments, with the normal box section not appearing on the site – I’ve found a temporary fix but I’m on to my WordPress “Happiness Engineer” (I know), and hopefully we’ll get to the bottom of it quickly. Thanks […]
The Kowloon Walled City Park, Kowloon City An unforgettable chapter of the Hong Kong childhood memoir I’ve been reading, Gweilo by Martin Booth, takes place in 1952, at exactly the spot where I’ve spent this humid morning, the Kowloon Walled City Park. Ever since I first read the book earlier this year I’ve wanted to […]
