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Back to Hong Kong in 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic might have got in the way but I’m finally headed back to Hong Kong – I managed to score one of the 6,020 “free” tickets in Cathay Pacific’s “World of Winners” giveaway. The tickets weren’t actually “free” […]
Tenth birthday for Checkerboard Hill
This month marks the tenth birthday of this blog – thanks for the support and kind comments from all my readers, on what has been quite a trip down the rabbit hole of railway and engineering related minutiae! My first […]
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Photos from my 2019 trip to Hong Kong
It has taken me a bit over a year, but I have finally finished uploading the photographs I took on my 2019 trip to Hong Kong. My itinerary. Day 1: arrival and Airport Express train Day 2: Wong Tai Sin […]
Back from another Hong Kong visit
It’s been three years since my son first visited Hong Kong, so it’s time for another visit to see the extended family This time around we visited a few places I’ve been to before but wanted to share with the […]
Planning for another trip to Hong Kong
It’s been three years since my last trip to Hong Kong, so it’s time for another visit. You’d think by now I would have run out of new things to see, but I’ve got quite a list places to visit […]