2020 annual work report of Frank the tour guide Due to Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Frank the tour guide just serves very few clients in the private car tours and cancels a lot of bookings at the beginning of the year. The pandemic-led tourism standstill also gives Frank the tour guide a good chance…
Hong Kong Post’s Christmas stamps show Hong Kong working holiday journey of Santa Claus When Santa Claus delivers presents in Hong Kong, he also tours around the city with his helpers and friends, reindeer, gingerbread men and snowman! Actually this is the main theme of the 2020 Christmas stamps of Hong Kong Post. Frank the…
Reasons for “Winter Solstice is as important as Lunar New Year” Today (21 December) is the Winter Solstice on Chinese Lunar Calendar. Although Hong Kong is under the 4th wave of Covid-19 outbreak, citizens still have big meal at home to celebrate. Chinese old saying, “the Winter Solstice is as big as the Chinese…
Short Sham Chun Street is a scene of a pandemic movie Sham Chun Street is a short and old street with a traditional wet market in Mong Kok Kowloon. It cannot reflect the fast and amazing development of the neighbor of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (“Sham Chun” is actually the old spelling of Shenzhen. It…
Due to La Niña and stronger-than-normal northeast monsoon, Hong Kong will be cold and dry in 2020’s winter Tomorrow is 1 Dec 2020. Hong Kong’s wintertime has come. According to the Hong Kong Observatory’s forecast, the sea water temperature around Hong Kong is getting lower and the situation will continue for the coming few…
Effective Hong Kong-Singapore air travel bubble postpones by fortnight Hong Kong-Singapore air travel bubble, which was due to launch on Sunday (22 Nov 2020), postpones by two weeks. This is not due to Santa Claus is still making the bubble! (Video shows you the Christmas decoration at Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong.) The reason is…
Old sculpture new meaning under Covid-19 Hong Kong’s Sha Tin New Town has a stainless steel sculpture called Preserve Planet Earth. In 1993, Hong Kong local sculptor Van Lau made this sculpture, which shows two human palms are supporting people’s habitat, the earth. Frank the tour guide thinks that the original idea for this design…
The world and life move in cycle just like Birdie Emerald’s molting Frank the tour guide’s pet Bridie Emerald is still molting. Its head has a lot of “white hair”, which are the roots of the new green feathers! The recent shedding for Birdie Emerald’s tail feathers just reminds Frank the tour guide of…
