Random thoughts from the sea
Day 74, 2024 Grand World Voyage Sunday, March 17, 2024; Hong Kong. Despite this being my third visit to Hong Kong, I had never ventured beyond Tsim Sha Tsui in west Kowloon and central Hong Kong Island on foot. So my plan for today was to take an easy ship’s
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Day 73, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday, March 16, 2024; Hong Kong. Sometimes your visit to an iconic city is so memorable that you wonder if you should ever go back. I felt that way as we arrived this morning in Hong Kong. When I was last here in 2018,
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Day 36, Grand Asia 2018 Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, Hong Kong: I keep thinking this cruise can’t get any better, and then it does. Our berth in Hong Kong is at Kai Tak, the site of the old Hong Kong airport turned into a cruise port on Kowloon. It’s not
Continue readingDay 32, Grand Asia 2017 Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 – Hong Kong Today we returned to the warmth. The morning temperature was in the 70s, with a noticeable touch of humidity. At breakfast, I overheard a woman at the next table excusing herself to change clothes, because “I am wearing
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