- Support Checkerboard Hill on Patreon!
Subscribe via email
Join 385 other subscribersTags
advertising Australia aviation Beijing buses China China Railways construction depots driving East Rail freeways history Hong Kong Hong Kong International Airport KCR Kowloon Kowloon Canton Railway Lantau Island light rail line guide locomotive Macau mainland maintenance Mass Transit Railway MTR mystery New Territories on the road on the water Outlying Islands rail operations railway railway signalling scale models Shanghai Shatin to Central Link television commercials tourist trap trains trams tunnels underground Victoria Harbour
Archives
Recent Posts
- The MTR light rail ‘money train’
- KCR 60 arrives at the Hong Kong Railway Museum
- MTR’s rolling billboard – the ‘Spectacular Mobile Showcase’
- A short history of the KTT
- Farewell to the MTR Intercity Through Train service
- 35th anniversary of the MTR Light Rail
- Farewell to the MTR fleet of EMD diesel-electric locomotives
- Hong Lok Yuen – suburbia in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong – an air conditioner in every window
- Hong Kong 1:150 scale dioramas by AC Studio
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Rebranding a hotel
A few years ago I received a curious email after my visit to Hong Kong – an invitation to review the Travelodge Hotel in Kowloon, despite never having stayed there. After a moment of thought, I realised why I got […]
Posted in Everyday Life
Tagged corporate branding, hotels, rebranding, rebrnading, tourism
Leave a comment
Foreign flag carriers and flights to Taiwan
Taiwan’s relationship with Mainland China is a complicated one, and the dispute has spilled out into the world of aviation, after the People’s Republic of China objected to the flag carriers of foreign governments serving what they regarded as a […]