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HK Travelogue - Day 5: Macau
On this Sunday, the second-to-last full day of our trip, we actually woke up rested. We'd gotten almost a full night of sleep and really felt the difference from the previous mornings. We returned to Canton Road for breakfast, where we found a Café de Coral in the enormous Pacific Place mall. Café de Coral is an inexpensive local chain that has ( Read more... ) -
Brief break from HK entries!
Well, I haven't stuck to my neat little plan of matching up HK travelogue entries with the appropriate days-of-week, since I neglected to do my Macau entry yesterday and I won't be getting to today's entry either. Our dear friend Tina is staying with us for a few days, so I'd rather spend my time with her, and these entries have been taking me ( Read more... ) -
HK Travelogue - Day 4: Hong Kong Park
This was the day when my feet started to really resent all the walking I was making them do. According to my pedometer, each day we were in HK, we walked about 5 miles, maybe more. I wore my all-weather/trail running shoes the whole time, but I think my poor soles just aren't used to hitting the pavement all day, every day. Every night when I got ( Read more... ) -
HK Travelogue - Day 3: The Peak, Stanley, and Repulse Bay
Our third morning in HK dawned bright and sunny. We thought we would have a fine day for our trip to the Peak, the territory's highest point, but before long the grey clouds were back. At any rate, it didn't rain. After our discovery of iSquare the night before, we headed over there in hopes that one of the eateries would be open for breakfast, but ( Read more... ) -
HK Travelogue - Day 2: Shopping, tea, and more shopping
My title makes it sound like we spent this whole day buying things, but we didn't. We just went to a lot of places where we could buy things. It was quite exhausting.
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HK Travelogue - Day 1: Big Buddha, ancient accessories, and a celebrity sighting
When I crashed into our bed at the YMCA last Tuesday, I was exhausted from our 14-hour flight and hoped to sleep well. I slept very soundly for about five hours, but then I woke up. It was morning at home, and my body knew it and wanted to get up and have its breakfast. I tried to go back to sleep, but I couldn't, so around 6:30 we showered and got ( Read more... ) -
HK Travelogue - Day 0: Introducing my world travels
Two weeks ago, after an hour on BART, two hours at SFO, and fourteen sleepless hours on Cathay Pacific, I arrived in Hong Kong. I say that it was my first international trip, but that isn't strictly true; I visited Canada twice (at ages four and ten), and on cruises, made daylong excursions to Mexico, Belize, and Honduras. I figured these cruise ( Read more... ) -
More protein = I feel better?
I'm planning to post my first Hong Kong travelogue entry today, but first I have to get this off my chest. (No, not a purring cat. That's at bedtime ( Read more... ) -
The plan for my post-HK travelogue
[x-posted to art blog]
The day before yesterday, we arrived back in the Bay Area from Hong Kong. There is so much I have to say and show you about this trip, but for now I'll just say: it was wonderful.
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Hong Kong!
I'm supposed to be putting in massive work today on my inventory for next Saturday's craft show, but my mind is abuzz with thoughts of Hong Kong. Last night we booked our hotel for our upcoming trip (April 5-13): we'll be staying at the Salisbury YMCA, which is very well reviewed and across the street from the fanciest hotel in the territory. The ( Read more... )
