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Hong Kong is after all not a particularly big city but there is a big part called New Territories which is an unknown quantity to me. My impressions on New Territories all come from bits and pieces from TV programmes, but I finally had some first-hand experience and impression on this part of Hong Kong when I stayed in the district of Tin Shui Wai over the Lunar New Year holiday. I have never thought that rural landscape and charm can still exist in an ultramodern ever-changing Hong Kong! 雖說香港地方細小，但新界對我來說一直是個陌生的地方，印象完全來自電視零碎的片段，直至過年時在天水圍住了兩星期，我才體會到新界原來另有一番景象，更意想不到這轉變急促、高度現代化的城市還容得下一點鄉土氣息！ On the second day of the Lunar New Year (24th Januray) I followed my brother and his family to the village at Wang Toi Shan where his wife’s family used to live. I didn’t have the faintest idea of where the village was, until my brother’s father-in-law started pointing out to me some landmarks along the road, such as the Shek Kong Airfield and the former location of Choi Yuen Tsuen, a village that ...

The end of daylight savings consigns summer into a distant memory, and has left me reminiscing about the days spent by the sea and the countryside. 不經不覺夏令時間又結束，這個夏天給我留下了不少海濱和郊野的回憶。 I spent a weekend winding down in Sydney from 10th to 11th December. Although I’ve been to Sydney many times in the past , I could rarely have two whole days totally to myself unlike this time, so I took the opportunity to explore some new places of interest. On the Saturday afternoon I took a saunter around the lake in the Centennial Park and enjoyed the sights of the myriad of waterfowls and flowers. In the afternoon I went to The Rocks district and took in the views of the Harbour Bridge as well as the suburb of North Sydney on the opposite side of the harbour from the Sydney Observatory and Dawes Point at its foot. 去年12月10至11日到悉尼過了一個悠閑的週末，雖然 以往已到過悉尼 很多遍，但難得是一個人有兩天隨心所欲到處逛，所以便趁機發掘一下新去處。星期六中午先在百週年紀念公園環湖漫步，細賞各樣花卉和水鳥，然後到岩石區（The Rocks），從天文台山和山腳的Dawes Point多角度觀賞悉尼大橋和對岸的北悉尼區（North Sydney）。 The entran...