Tag: Kowloon Tong

• The Dragon Wagged Its Tail…Hong Kong-Beijing-Shanghai Express Train Journey…

  

  TRAIN JOURNIES REVISITED…. Train journeys, whether in home country or across continents, is a sure way of stepping on stones and warts. I am no stranger to train travel, short or lengthy, reveling in the feeling of searing across open land or tearing through crowded cities. But few have been flabbergasters as the one I […]

  Travtrails

  July 17, 2019

  Accidental Expat

  Asia, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hard Sleeper, Hong Kong, Indian Railways, Kowloon Tong, New Territories, Paul Theroux, Pearl River Delta, Sha Tin, Shanghai, Soft sleeper, train journeys

• Accidental Expat -2 Hong Kong

  ‘…. travel is, deep down, about the real confirmation of very unreal dreams (PICO IYER…’CAN A TRIP EVER BE AUTHENTIC’) 2000-2008…a period of hibernation, of re-locations from Muscat to New Delhi to Gurgaon, Haryana. Property boom and strong industrial base had transformed Gurgaon, a sleepy village with affiliations to Mahabharata (one of the religious tomes of India), […]

  Travtrails

  February 19, 2016

  Accidental Expat

  China, Dai Pai Dongs, Dorothy Ko, expat life, food, Hong Kong, Hung Hom, India, John Le Carre, Kowloon Tong, Muscat, Paul Theroux