Hong Kong trip.

December 17th 2018

Hong Kong We Have Arrived!

After a few days of getting over jet lag we were out and about Discovery Bay.
Today we walked to the Plaza to go to post office and collect a few groceries. And went over the ferry to Central where we went to collect our seniors octopus card so we can ride the ferry and buses at half price.
Because in Discovery Bay the mountains are the backdrop so where ever you go it is either up hill or down hill, so we walk downhill and catch the bus up when we are loaded with groceries.
Here is the photo of looking back up the road to where our son and his family have moved.

We walked down through the trees to the beach and along the beach walk into plaza.

The plaza has always been a great meeting place of friends, where one can grab a coffee and sit at the tables and visit. Today they are beginning to get the pointsetta and the Christmas Decorations out.

We went on the ferry into central to get our seniors octopus passes for half price fares on the buses and ferry. We were lucky to see a junk from the window of the ferry before we docked. Also a view of downtown Hong Kong.

As you can see it has been a lovely day, temperature about 21C, yesterday the rain came down the mountain, so when we came out from church everywhere was wet but it soon dried up.

Until next time

Ally.

Cornwall Tin Mine

Few More Pictures from Cornwall.


While in the UK this pass summer we were able to visit Cornwall for 5 days. We took an apartment that we found on the Air B&B site online and was very pleased with it. It was situated at a small seaside town called Looe, which is very Central to lots of places in the South Coast and North coast of Cornwall.
One of the places on the North coast of Cornwall, we wanted to visit was St Agnes it is renowned for the beautiful rugged coastline with beautiful breaking rollers, certainly a great subject for this thread painter. But one of the items I did want to take photo's of was the many derelict tin mines making them a good subject to thread paint.
So here are a few I took of them.

As you can see from the photo's we had excellent weather, in the whole 3 weeks there we had only 1/2 hour of rain, which is amazing for England, we were so bleassed.

I do have many more photo's of quaint places of England to share with you and took some beautiful rugged coastline of Tintagel, but they are all on my desktop computer at home and right now we are away on our travels.

As many of you know our son and daughter in law and g.sons live in Hong Kong and after such a bad winter for Paul health wise we decided to make this trip while everything health wise is stable. So Hong Kong for Christmas and Australia in the New Year. So we would love to share our travels with you. Hope you will join us from your armchair and enjoy the vistas. As many of you know that our Hong Kong family lived on a boat and had to vacate it, very upsetting for them as they loved their life and community life at the marina, so it has been quite an adjustment for them, losing their friends as they all scatter to different parts of Hong Kong, Thailand and beyond. Saying goodbye is never easy but we hope for them positive thoughts to new beginnings. So we say goodbye to Karma.