Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
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…
I tried to buy a CD of this music in Singapore at the temple of the Buddha Tooth Relic but Chris wouldn’t let me. Sad. It’s the name of Buddha being chanted over and over, but I like the tune. I was surprised to hear it again in the main temple at the 10,000 Buddhas…
