2020: A Year To Remember..
… and a year we want to forget. It is December. It is mid-winter and the darkest, bleakest time of year. And it is 2020 – a year that we will all be very glad to see end. Way back … Continued
Living with COVID Restrictions: Colorado and Florida
I am a retired U.S. Air Force officer and met my husband in Colorado Springs while on assignment here in 2011. When we got married, he had a house in Colorado Springs and I had a condo in Florida. Since … Continued
At that time people in Shanghai were very scared.
Shanghai is a very international city. There are a lot of people coming in and out. At first Wuhan was the most serious city for coronavirus and after Chinese New Year the Government wanted to lockdown Wuhan. Before this was … Continued
For us, quarantine in Melbourne was fine.
My husband’s brother lived in Melbourne. We had visited them a few times and they kept urging us to leave Hong Kong and move to Melbourne. Without kids I wouldn’t consider coming here. As a couple, Hong Kong would be fine for … Continued
Our problem now is getting a flight home from Spain
We own an apartment in Spain, on the Costa del Sol, in a little town on the coast. We are both retired and came over in March and were supposed to head home around the 21st of April. 10 days after we arrived … Continued
In Hong Kong everything comes down to economics.
In Hong Kong at the beginning of Coronavirus it was all about stockpiling and face masks – this was right after Chinese New Year in February. The government offices were closed… the library, the swimming pools … and the kids didn’t … Continued