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Choi Hung Estate

One of the most eye-catching places in Hong Kong: the Choi Hung Estate (Chinese: 彩虹邨) is an Instagram favourite with its many colourful blocks of flats framed by its equally vibrant basketball courts. Worth a trip if you’re a photographer or simply enjoy a splash of colour, try and go early to avoid the crowds …

Sai Kung

Sorry it has been a while since my last post but I was on a whistlestop tour of New Zealand and then had to move into my new house (we’re nearly done only a few things left to do now) but let’s jump back several months to that day I jumped off a waterfall in …

Exploring Downtown Hong Kong

One of the many joys of living in Hong Kong is the ability to wander through the city and being astounded by either the architecture, the people, or both. An area where this is particularly effective is Admiralty, you can wander from the Harbours edge to the iconic Hong Kong Park and be constantly wowed. …

Victoria Peak Hike II

My Family came to visit me for a week at the end of February and I decided to take them for a walk up to the iconic Victoria Peak and to admire the iconic Hong Kong skyline from the Lugard Road Lookout. Spring has been slowly arriving in Hong Kong so although dry it was …

Macao Trip

A small city much like Hong Kong, Macao is a gamblers paradise, a former portugese colony it is only a short distance from Hong Kong. You can reach Macao by either Ferry or as we did, across the worlds longest sea crossing the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, by Bus. We decided to do this entire thing …

Cheung Chau

The Island of Cheung Chau is an outlying island of Hong Kong, its nickname is the ‘dumbell island’ as it is shaped like a dumbell. It is a place where the locals often go to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and enjoy a day in the sunshine taking in some …

Chinese New Year Flower Fair

A shorter one this week, I went to the Flower Market here in Victoria Park a few weeks ago. It was an event for Chinese New Year however because of the size of my backlog I have only just gotten round to editing these This gave me an opportunity to practice my street portraits, I’ve …

Big Buddha, Po Lin Monastery, and Wisdom Path

This week we’re continuing our quest to get on top of all the trips I’ve done but not written up yet by jumping back to October when I hiked up to the Big Buddha with another friend of mine, we’ll meet her again in Shenzhen whenever I get round to writing that up. Now you …

Hong Kong: New Year 2019

Happy belated New Year, I am aware that my NYE post has come out after my Chinese New Year post but that’s poor planning on my behalf, and a warning that most of these blogs will be in a random order as I’m trying to clear a backlog of stuff while constantly shooting more Anyway …