Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
I underestimated how nice it would be to just be home. What with Chris being gone and all the blah stuff I had to deal with back here I was kind of indifferent about returning. But you know what…even though it is cold and rainy, it’s nice and warm in my house, and the kitties…
Japanese women seem to have this innate ability to be crafty, whether it’s a talent for folding tiny bits of paper to create a live animal or the ability to build entire life-sized houses of glue and fabric scraps. Prior to the Christmas Tree Ornament-Making Friendship Event, where we together made ornaments to decorate the…
We spent our last day in Hong Kong touring Hong Kong Island, starting with the historic Victoria Peak Tram, an 8-minute ride that pretty much trolleys you straight up the slope of the mountain, and if you want to take it back down—well, you ride backwards. From there we bussed around to Aberdeen on the…
For the record—typhoons notwithstanding, try to visit Hong Kong in the late fall or winter. The weather was warm, dry and sunny. Perfect!
The day I walked from Ms. Fashionable’s hotel back to my own I took a shortcut through Kowloon Park, walking along the aviary and these flamingos. Chris and I cut through the same park on our way to Lantau Island Sunday afternoon. I’d read that there’s been a fairly large influx of Christian Filipino women…
At the end of that cool floating cable car ride was the Po Lin Monastery and the Tian Tan Buddha Statue. We had a vegetarian lunch in the monastery consisting of: today’s soup, deep fried spring rolls, fried mix vegetable with bean curd sheet, black mushroom with vegetables, steam bean curd with light chili sauce,…
Oranges, sugarcane and coconuts were a few of the many wares—edible and non—available along the mainland China coast across the water from Hong Kong. We couldn’t actually see Hong Kong, of course; too smoggy. This former fishing village was in the 1970s turned into the first Special Economic Zone in China, which means Chinese people…
