Expat Living (Hong Kong)

What’s new and noteworthy in Hong Kong?

A new waterfront park in Sai Ying Pun is opening in December, bringing a lively new play space for families. It will feature a cloudshaped inflatable playground, water and sand areas, and a rotating platform that welcomes wheelchair users. Children...

Like every dog on the planet, our dog Blue has her quirks.

For example, she likes to sleep not on top of a clean, beautifully cushioned, luxury accessorised dog bed, but just to the side of one. My family has photos galore of lovingly prepared, amazingly comfortable sleeping arrangements, and there’s Blue, 10...

EDITOR'S NOTE

It’s funny how we teach our kids when they’re growing up that it’s wrong to tell a lie, then when they show us an abysmal drawing that they’ve done of a “cat”, we tell them how amazing it is. I was terrible at art as a child. Well, I still am...

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Interior Trends for 2025

I planned on discussing getting older in this letter, so I searched the internet for “weird trivia about middle age” in the hope of finding a fun quote to kick things off.

But the internet wasn’t having any of it. “Showing results for weird trivia about the Middle Ages”, it said. Before you know it, I’m reading about jousting and jesters, about women plucking their hairlines so their foreheads looked enormous, and about...