A few days ago, there was some discussion on a Cruise Ship forum I participate in, and the question was asked “When our ship docks in Wellington, what things should we do?” The most consistent answers were the Te Papa museum, and the Wellington Cable Car. Strictly speaking, however, Wellington doesn’t have a cable car…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. And for Wednesday, its the view from Victoria Peak of Hong Kong, and its residential towers. To get to The Peak, you can go by bus, by taxi, by car – or by a funicular railway – where two carriages are connected on a giant…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. And today, it’s a hiking trail and steps below the Ngong Ping peak, on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. Lantau is Hong Kong’s largest island – but until the 1990s it was largely undeveloped – home to fishing villages and not much else. In fact, film buffs may…
This photo stinks! Well, at least its subject does. Hong Kong literally means “Fragrant Harbour”. Yes, well. I could think of lots of words to describe Hong Kong, but I’m not entirely sure “Fragrant” would come to mind. Oh, it’s not as pungent as (say) Bangkok with its smelly khlongs – or Beijing with its…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. For Saturday, we return to Hong Kong – and we return to 2010. I mention the year that this image was taken merely because this reconstruction will have finished five years ago – but ones like it are happening every day in Hong Kong. We were…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. When we were in San Francisco the first time (stay with me, this is relevant), we went to the Asian Art Museum – and it used the spread of Buddhism as a chronological guide to the artefacts on show. Amongst other things, it showed just how…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. For Tuesday, it’s Hong Kong – a ‘Special Administrative Region’ of China. Fragrant Harbour, which is the literal Chinese name for this enclave, is a small island and a nearby mainland area excised from China in a bitter war with Britain in 1842. The war was…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is X (Marks the spot). For Tuesday, it is eXotic Hong Kong. We’ve only been to Hong Kong once – on our way to Europe, to catch up with our son in the UK … but I have to say, I’d love to return. This particular…
I was going through some raw video the other night when I found a two minute slice-of-life as we rode the Peak Tram in Hong Kong back in 2010 – and I remembered being told that it was a funicular railway, rather than a cable car. I asked Shirley if she knew the difference – and…
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