Category: Hong Kong


  • Exploring Macau and Saying Goodbye to Hong Kong

    On Friday, we went to Macau. We had gone back and forth on whether to go, but in the end decided that we wanted to complete our trifecta of Not China while we were in the area. Macau isโ€ฆvery odd. It was a Portugese colony starting in the 1500s, and now itโ€™s the gambling capital…

  • The Calm Between Storms in Hong Kong

    We picked a difficult time to visit Hong Kong. We had booked this trip several months ago, before protests picked up in June, and as the trip grew closer we watched the news carefully and with increasing alarm, especially when the western news stopped covering the protests and it became increasingly difficult to find accurate…