The decade or so before 1997 saw a lot of people leaving Hong Kong, many to Toronto and Vancouver, depending on whether they needed a job at the time, such that the younger professionals tended to move east while those who had amassed sufficient resources, west. I had never thought of leaving Hong Kong, not…
We left Mei Foo in tearing haste for the airport Sunday morning. The evening before, we attended the 87th Birthday bash in honour of Rev Fr Alfred Deignan which was preceded by a mini concerto organized by four medical doctors, including the MC. But life had been more than hectic even before that, so much…
I have not posted a letter on my Letters since we returned from Ireland, which was more than four months ago. It was not that nothing had been happening. The reverse could probably be the case; but I had no convenient starting point and no pegs on which to hang anything. Then, my desktop crashed…
We have been away for some three weeks, in Ireland, yes, the Republic of Ireland; and tonight is the last night we would spend in this country before we return home. This morning, we left Bantry in our rental and drove over 100km to Kinsale which is a costal and picturesque town famous for its…
“CX 250 – London to Hong Kong – has just taken off and Su is already fast asleep. While waiting for my Gold Label, I took out my Lenovo. I am minded that life would take on a different pace as soon as we are back in Hong Kong. As a start, we would need…
Su and I enjoyed tremendously our three-week sojourn in France. We are lucky to have this extraordinary opportunity to visit a number of places to which even many people in France may not go. On the last day, our host made us dinner which was also attended by a neighbor who did not speak English….
It was the seventh day Su and I were on the road; having stayed one night in Hotel du Gue de Beauvoir at Mont Saint-Michel, two nights in Hotel le Bayeux at Bayeux, and three nights in Comfort Hotel Alba at Rouen. By the time we reached Mayenne – which is the department where my…
It might seem that we did not cover a lot of grounds in five days between La Rochelle and Les Sables-d’Olonne, but we had not set an agenda to leave our footprints everywhere. Our objective was to have a great time; and we believe we achieved that. Back at Fontenaille, we developed a plan to…
I left off last time when I was relaying our third night in La Rochelle, a tourist city by the sea – the Atlantic Ocean – with rich history dated to the classical antiquity periods of ancient Greece and ancient Rome. It was an important naval, fishing, commercial and political centre for France and Europe…
“Fontenaille, or Chateau de Fontenaille, is the name of my friend’s chateau in France, where I stayed for ten days between a pilgrimage with the Jesuit priest and a retreat in Plum Village. I had meant to share with you this scenic place, its history and environment, the serene atmosphere, the vast expanse of nothingness…
