Hong Kong and Shenzhen - July 2017

Discovering new places to eat lunch near my new office. Love this place - no English menu. Order by pointing...

Jacqui and I went to Shenzhen for the day. Visa took a while so we were hungry by the time we got through. Had lunch at Lu Wo...

Caught the Shenzhen subway to Dafen oil painting village. It was very crowded on the train. Oil painting village was quite interesting...

Went to a tea place. No English menu which made ordering a challenge. Got this green tea latte which was good. I left the cream...

Back in HK, had some banana and ricotta toast one day before Cantonese in my new favourite cafe, 18 Grams in Sheung Wan. Food is generally presented very well in the western style cafe's...



On one of my walks up Victoria Peak...

View from my balcony...

Sunset from our balcony...



Pour your own beer at Cali-Mex Mexican restaurant...for Callum's birthday...

Trying to sign members at a new gym next to my work. Topless men on Queen's Road Central...the gym is in the same premises as my old gym which went broke and I lost my 2 years prepaid membership :-(

Sydney / Canberra / Central Coast - June / July 2017

Took Callum back to Sydney for part of his school holidays. Here he is, having Teh Tarik at HKIA...

Flew Tuesday on Cathay which was fine. Slept a bit. Alex picked us up from Pymble. Met my new car...

Wednesday we drove to Canberra to see my mother. The retirement village is a nice place, as far as those places go. We went to dinner at the Ainslie Club. Stayed at the Hutchies. Played the tourist and went to the Portrait Gallery and Parliament House.

Old Parliament House...

National Portrait Gallery...

Love the bike racks on the front of the bus...

Had ice cream at Frujii...

Got up next day and walked up Mount Ainslie. Minus 1 !!

Proof !!

Above the clouds...

Saw Neryl again and headed back to Sydney. Stupidly I missed the exit and ended up driving though Sydney in peak hour !

Friday went to Umina and measured up for some curtains. Here I am in my new hoodie...

Saturday went to Umina to put up the curtains while Callum visited with Chelsea. Stayed at Glenys' and had a great BBQ.

Front bedroom...

Side bedroom...

Sunday had drinks with friends at The Commodore in North Sydney. Spotted a Simon Le Bon impersonator...

Vanessa, Julie, me and Chris...

Richard and Simon...

Afterwards, went to Noodle City in Gordon and spoke some Cantonese to the waitress...

Monday did some chores and had dinner with Simon and the boys at The Bayview, Gladesville. Afterwards, took Alex and Callum grocery shopping...



Tuesday went to Freshwater and walked to Shelly Beach, with Alex, Tyler and Callum.

Wednesday I flew back to Hong Kong. Qantas flight. Watched Kong:Skull Island which was really good, plus Going In Style with Michael Caine which had some funny moments.