Excited By Life

I love to go for short hikes with friends on weekends in Hong Kong. One of my favorite hikes is the Quarry Bay to Stanley Bay hike, which we mentioned in a previous post. It goes right across Hong Kong Island. Recently we tried a slight variation that made the walk a lot more interesting. [...]

It’s been 7 years now that our family have lived in Hong Kong, since we moved here as expats from Australia. Those 7 years have been a great experience with many benefits we would love to share with you.   The Opportunity I was an IT guy working for a bank in Australia and the [...]

Having grown up on a farm and experienced farm life, I sometimes feel sorry for children who have only ever lived in the city. For me,  life on a farm was one big adventure, and school just a necessary distraction. Farm life was the most exciting time in my life. I wanted to help capture [...]

Every Sunday my friends and I like to do a long hike in the country. Last weekend we chose arguably the most famous of all hikes in Hong Kong – Dragon’s Back. In 2004 Time Magazine voted Dragon’s Back as the best Urban Hike in Asia. This hike is only 20 minutes from the center [...]

If you ever make it to Hong Kong one of the most easiest walks is the walk across the Island from the hustle and bustle of Quarry Bay to the quite resort style lifestyle of Stanley. Hong Kong, although small and highly populated is unique in that the center of the island is mainly uninhabited [...]

Have you ever wanted to travel around the world? Have you dreamed of seeing all the wonders of the world, from the pyramids to the Great Wall? Many of us would love to travel more, but we make excuses about the cost, the time commitment, and other responsibilities. However, many people are able to make [...]

We don’t like to brag but Maggie and I managed to do the unbelievable. We Transformed the usual boring (to most people other than ourselves of course)  family holiday photos into a You Tube video production to rival any blockbuster from Steven Spielberg. Well our kids think so anyway. Check it out. Our family took [...]