Back to the US

The snow has melted, it is very quiet (where is the crowd?), and a few geese are back too.

Last day in Hong Kong

bookreading
Maxim Lo - Oliver's illustrator

Another book reading, this time at Commercial Press Olympic (Kowloon) followed by a family treat (Ocean Park) and a dinner with Ariyul at Stanley.
We are packing tonight - all sad to leave Hong Kong.

Goldfish in Ocean Park Atoll Reef in Ocean Park

Another busy day

bookreading at Metrobooks, Kowloon

dinner at the Peak with friends

They're out!

The two new books are out. They still smell the glu and the ink; the printer delivered them yesterday and they are already in several HK bookshops.

The day started with half an hour ferry commute to DB Island (Discovery Bay) to see my colleague Myriam for a meeting... on the beach (it's fun to draw on the sand when explaining a point!). The afternoon went fast with 4 meetings with the publisher, and three friends/business relations, who ended up knowing each other (Hong Kong's a small world). Sebastien played with his former school friends while Oliver went to Bamboo Grove (our former block of flats) playground.

We ended the day with a nice Italian dinner al fresco en famille, and - Hong Kong style - bumped into a business relation of mine whose girls attended the same school as the boys.

Hong Kong harbour
more containers
Hong Kong Island from the ferry - IFC Tower on the right

Back to Hong Kong

Elements new shopping centre in Kowloon (the nine dragons)
Wanchai: old buildings about to be demolished

Wanchai: thoughtful butcher
Wanchai: Chinese traditional medicine shop
Wanchai: market street


Difficult to summarise Hong Kong in one picture- Hong Kong is a layer of different worlds living in parallel. Announcements in three languages in the MTR, men pushing heavy loads with bare hands and Rolls Royce side by side. Super modern and extra clean shopping centers with luxury goods and electronics and little shops.

Highlights of the day: meetings with Enrich, a+b=3's partner in Hong Kong, lunch with Ariyul who hadn't seen the boys since we moved and a+b=3's audit documents signed and lots of running around (printer, optician...) - it's Hong Kong.

If you are ready to face the French version, the pictures are different!

Transit

sunset from HCM airport

In Ho Chi Minh airport for three hours - enjoying wifi, recharging our electronic devices and checking emails. We're missing the tuc-tuc trips already but looking forward to going back to HK.

typical Cambodian house - between Siem Reap and Sisophon
near Angkor Wat

Leaving Siem Reap

A few more temples this morning (after a good baguette and Khmer coffee) and we sadly have to leave Cambodia. We are now at Siem Reap airport waiting for our (delayed) flight and enjoying the free wifi!

8am at Salabai School: raising of the flag