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Monthly Archives: October 2020
Hong Kong bus models for every budget
What does a young kid on holiday in Hong Kong and loaded up with red envelopes do? In the case of my son – spend the cash on pull-back action models of Hong Kong public transport! Cheap and cheerful The […]
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Tagged 80M Bus Model Shop, buses, hobbies, Hong Kong, kids, model buses, model trains, scale models
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Books for learning Hong Kong Cantonese
My son has always been interested in learning Cantonese, so our last trip to Hong Kong we did the rounds of bookshops, trying to find a book on the subject. We ended up buying a copy of “Illustrated Hong Kong […]