Painting, frames, pictures.

Dan and I finally got our Hong Kong paintings (imported all the way from Hong Kong!) stretched in Camden.

We spend some time, sorting out our frames and rearranging the arrangement. And voila, the flat now looks as it should :)

We also spent some money on some penguin books postcards. We chose our favourites and framed them :)

Our final arrangement. Feels so great to see the walls filled now! 

We're home!!

So as a lot of you would probably guess by now if you follow me on twitter & Instagram or are even my friend on facebook- Dan and I returned to the UK from our trip on Friday!

It was a big big secret since none of Daniel's family knew- it was a complete surprise for them. My brother and much of my family also didn't know.

The last week in Hong Kong was both sad and lovely. It was sad to leave but it was also lovely to know we were returning to our comforts and to the English things that we enjoy!

Our return home has been a month in the making, sending a lot of boxes home shipped as we just had too much stuff, preparing tickets and sorting a lot of things out in Hong Kong to ensure our return home was straight-forward.

You can read our final blog post from HK by visiting our travel blog or by clicking the link below.

http://sweetnsourhongkongstyle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/next-stop-london-last-and-final-travel.html

DID- Dialogue in the Dark, Hong Kong

Today Daniel and I experience 'Dialogue in the Dark'. We were taken through a series of every day scenes by someone who is visually impaired in complete darkness. We are taken around by a man named Jack. For 75 minutes we experienced the world in a completely different way. Such a fun, scary and humbling experience. First we went outside and learnt about our surroundings with trees, plants, soil, grass and sand, then we went on a boat trip with wind and rain. This was followed by visiting the town and local shops. Afterwards we travelled to a theatre and listened to some films and music as well as exchanging money to buy drinks in a bar. Doing everything in pitch black with nothing but your hearing, smell, taste and touch is more difficult than it seems. It was absolutely inspiring. You can visit their website here. I'd seriously recommend anyone to try this! 

Parents!

If you follow mine and my partner's travel blog, you'd all know that my parents arrived on their holiday to visit Daniel and I over two weeks ago now.

I had to put this picture on my blog because I thought it was just so lovely. This was taken in Mong Kok Langham Place shopping centre where they currently have lots of Chinese New Year decorations. The displays are so beautiful. They really go all out to make these places look stunning.

'Gong Hei Fa Choi!'

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Happy New Year! 

Christmas in Hong Kong 2012

The 25th December this year was far from any 25th December I've ever known. It was really strange. I was so far from home and so far from my family and home comforts.

Dan and I started the day by putting the yummy prepared turkey into the oven at 6am. We then started opening each others presents and having coffee and biscuits. My Dad held midnight mass at his church. Click here to see the website for St. James Sutton-On-Hull Church. Because we're 8 hours ahead, after they finished midnight mass, it was already 8-9 am in the morning for us so we had a Skype until 2am their time! It was so lovely :) I sent some presents over for them so they opened it to me on Skype otherwise it would have been late afternoon for us before we could Skype them because they needed sleep!

Dan and I cooked our turkey and watch Christmassy films. It was so cosy and romantic :) 

Oir Cranberry infused turkey. Please note- It's not burnt! It's caramelised cranberries mmmMMmm.

Skype photo time!!

My lovely presents off Laura :)

Willow and Fluffy shared a Christmas kiss :)

And then Willow opened her presents :)

Sat at our table ready to eat our delicious food! Turkey for two!!

It's definitely been a Christmas to remember :) 

Change of Travel blog URL!

Our travel blog can no longer be found on the previous URL. If you wish to view Daniel and my travel blog of our adventures in Hong Kong please click the following link :)

http://sweetnsourhongkongstyle.blogspot.hk

Thank you! Happy Reading :)

Sometimes my blog translates to Chinese

And I have no idea why, then I refresh the page and it's all English again. It gets very annoying.

Anyway, this post was just to show you my new friend that I met today and because I simply haven't updated this blog in a while even though my days are usually very interesting.

This little guy was walking on the floor before I scooped him up and took lots of photos. He was very curious in this photo, before crawling all over the camera. He could probably see his reflection in the lens or something!

Here he is, little poser.

Oh, what's also annoying is when I'm loading a Youtube video. You know those videos you get before the video starts? Yeah? Well now mine are all in Chinese. And those Facebook adverts down the right hand side? Also in Chinese. 

Thank you Hong Kong for making advertisements even more boring to me!

Adventure Playground!

The other day Daniel and I sat in on a class. The school we're working at has just had an impressive adventure playground built. The teacher took them out to have a go on it for about half an hour or so. The kids were so happy and having so much fun that we just had to take a few snaps. Here are some of the best ones!

Hong Kong in black & white

Here are a few snaps of the children I teach at the Kindergarden school. There's also a few photographs of the outing that Daniel and I had yesterday to Mong Kok ladies market, we walked two station stops and ending up at Temple Street night market and had something to eat at 'Temple Spicy Crab' which is somewhere where my brother took me and my Dad 4 years ago.