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 […]
Welcome back to Incidents of Travel and the continuing struggles during the high heat of August of this Hong Kong Ferry Challenge. With my options for more ferry journeys becoming fewer with every google search, I came up with a cunning alternative plan. Since one of my goals was to take a ferry to explore […]
Ferry Day 9 – If you recall, as we left things a few days ago we had just completed the first 6 ferry piers from Central on Hong Kong Island, taking a total of 34 separate ferry journeys. Now I have a confession to make. There are no more ferries left to take from the […]
Ferry Day 8 – I can’t make my mind up about the character of this pier, which is divided into two. On the left, for Peng Chau, it’s bustling and friendly with a good coffee shop. On the right, where I’ve just boarded to go to Silvermine Bay, it’s quite characterless and functional. The ‘Ordinary’ […]
Ferry Day 7 – I so enjoyed my brief time on Peng Chau yesterday, and also wanted to see if the festival was going to happen there today, that I broke one of my own rules and took the same ferry again. This trip is so like cycling with a bungee cord attached, bouncing back […]
Ferry Day 6 – You may have gathered by now that ‘Chau’ means island, and today took me over to one of the smallest islands so far, Peng Chau, which is just off the coast of Discovery Bay, Lantau Island, where I was on Ferry Day 2. The island is like a miniature dumbbell version […]
A long and very picture-heavy blog today, so settle back. First, a little housekeeping from yesterday’s blog: I asked if anyone could help with an ID of the Late Neolithic Celebrity I met on Park Island, and my brother Seb came to the rescue. Here’s a reminder of the gentleman in question: And the answer […]
Hong Kong Ferry Day 1 – OK, we’re off! This bike adventure is finally up and running. This morning, after saying goodbye to Susie who was off for her first day of examining, I carried my bike downstairs, unfolded it outside the hotel as arranged with Joyce, and handed the bag over to King at […]
We had two days before Susie began her busy examining schedule and I began island-hunting, two days to shrug off the jet-lag and explore our surroundings a little. I have visited Hong Kong several times before on orchestral tours but for Susie it was not only her fist time here but her first trip to […]
Hotel finally confirmed I’m glad to say that we now know where we’re staying, and the hotel is right on the harbour front on the Kowloon side in Tsim Sha Tsui East, and very nice too. I had a close look and it seems to be perfectly placed for all of Susie’s daily trips out […]
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