Category Archives: Hong Kong

I woke up early – again. This time it was 4:20. We were planning to head to Lantau island by 8:00 so that we could see the ginormous Buddah and take a short hike around the mountainous terrain. I figured … Continue reading →

Having skipped dinner in favor of a nap the night before, we were starving when we got out of bed. (I’d also been up for a couple hours reading a book from 3-5, so I’d worked up an appetite.) We … Continue reading →

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As you know, Mr. Farmer is planning to find a job when we return from our escapade, and his interview suit is sorely outdated. In fact, I think he wore it in college. So, one of our goals for this … Continue reading →

On our final evening in Hong Kong, we finally stayed up late enough to take in the nightly Symphony of Lights show (at 8 p.m.). Highly impressive. (Again not my video, but it looks the same.)

After arriving at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Wan Chai, we flopped on the bed, read the tourism magazines in the room and made a general plan for our three days in Hong Kong. Agenda for the first day was a … Continue reading →

One thing’s for certain: public transit in Hong Kong is first rate. It’s a traveler’s paradise. Everything is well-marked in English, trains are connected by underground tunnels, the trains and stations are immaculate, and everything’s on time (with count-down clocks … Continue reading →

When I wrote this post, it was 4:23 a.m. Hong Kong time, and I’d been awake for an hour. Shame on us for “taking a nap” at 6:00 last night, with the intention of going back out to see the … Continue reading →