You come to Beijing expecting palaces. Red walls. Ancient roofs. History. Dad noticed something else. Look Through the Leaves There they were. Colour against that long red wall. Dad stopped. Click. And kept walking. Then Dad Saw This A little girl....
Dad was looking through his old Beijing photographs. And there they were. The doors Dad had stopped for. The windows. The old walls. The little things that made Dad raise his camera while wandering Beijing’s hutongs (胡同, hútòng). Looking at them...
Dad and Elaine had already traveled through parts of China’s Greater Bay Area before Dad really understood what it was. 😂 First: Hong Kong (香港) → Shenzhen (深圳, Shēnzhèn). Then: Hong Kong → Macau (澳門). Then: Macau → Hong Kong across...
Shenzhen (深圳, Shēnzhèn) has been sitting inside Dad’s head for a long time. Long before Dad and Elaine crossed over from Hong Kong for our recent half-day Shenzhen adventure… Dad had already been trying to understand this city. And, more importantly,...
We woke up in Mong Kok (旺角), Kowloon (九龍), Hong Kong. Our hotel was in Hong Kong. Our plan for the day? GO TO SHENZHEN. 😂 Not by plane. Not by long-distance coach. Not even by high-speed rail. We were simply...
😂 WELCOME TO MACAU. Crowds. Chinese signs. Portuguese-style paving. Pastry shops. Souvenir shops. Food everywhere. And Elaine walking straight into the middle of it. We were on Rua de São Paulo (大三巴街), heading toward the Ruins of St. Paul’s (大三巴牌坊). Then...
There are two ways to experience Hong Kong (香港). You can wake up, leave your hotel and travel across the city before your sightseeing begins. Or you can wake up… walk downstairs… and discover that Hong Kong (香港) has already started...
Dad didn’t choose Mong Kok (旺角) simply because we needed another hotel. He chose Mong Kok (旺角) because Dad wanted Elaine to experience another Hong Kong. We had already stayed in Sheung Wan (上環) on Hong Kong Island (香港島), where Dad...
Sleep → Eat → Walk → See → Coffee. When Dad was choosing where we should stay in Hong Kong, there was a strategy behind it. I didn’t want Elaine and me to stay right in the middle of the busiest...
Where We Stayed in Hong Kong: Dad & Elaine stayed at ibis Hong Kong Central & Sheung Wan — good value, a relatively spacious room by Hong Kong standards, convenient airport and MTR connections, and everyday local Hong Kong just outside the door. Some...
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