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| Page Views: 4,136 | * Merry Christmas from Hong Kong 2004* by backpackerbaby - last update: Dec 26, 2004 |
| Mr. Ginger Bread & his wife @ HK Winter Festival |
Do you like Christmas? How important Christmas is to you?
In Europe, Christmas is the time the family gather and celebrate together. I experienced several Christmas days in Europe. The atmosphere is really warm and impressive. It's not difficult to see beautiful decorations, they're just EVERYWHERE.
Shop decorations on Oxford Street and Regent Street in London were really graceful.
Home decorations in Germany are very lovely - many German families like hanging a 'blowing Santa Claus with a climbing pose' right outside their windows, it's really funny! Inside their homes, lots of candles in lots of beautiful candle holders are lit up. This really makes you feel warm. Of course, there is at least one big christmas tree in the living room. Unlike those in HK, the trees are real, not plastic....
For me, Christmas is the greatest festival. It's difficult to see so many smiling faces on the street on other days. It's really the best moment to see the vibrant life of Hong Kong. |
| Santa Claus is really in town! |
|  | Hong Kong Winter Festival 2004 Lovely Christmas decorations @ Statue Square, Central. |
| There must be at least one... |
| | The tallest outdoor Christmast tree in HK Height = 35m. Again, you can see it at HK Winter Festival. |
| | Contrast The giant IFC2 vs the tallest Xmas tree in town.
Cold vs warm.
Which side you are on? I vote for the tree!!! |
| Snowy Chapel & the Bank of China Tower. |
| | @ HK Winter Festival 2004. |
| Right to left: Wan Chai to Causeway Bay. |
| | Christmas Day - Dido The young gentleman came riding past on a snow-blue winter's day
He asked to drink by our fire and I was pleased to let him stay
He drank there quietly for a while and then he turned and said to me
Your eyes are green like summer grass
Your lips are red like a fresh-cut rose
Your hair is soft like an Irish stream
And your voice is filled with sweet beauty
And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day
And the night will come but I won't sleep as I watch the stars that lead him
I cannot place where he is but still my heart goes with him
I'm saving all my Sunday clothes for the day that I'll be leaving
Father knows, my sister knows
And my friends, they're happy for me and the priest he says
You should thank God for the blessing of such beauty
And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day
And the last words I heard him say
Were the last words I ever heard him say
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day
I said I will return on Christmas Day
And yes, I shall return on Christmas day
I shall return, for you, on Christmas Day
My love, I will return on Christmas Day
I shall return, my love, on Christmas Day
On Christmas Day |
| The most beautiful decoration - the Peninsula. |
| | Surprised? It's really a big surprise for me to see that the Peninsula adopts the decoration from 2002 again.
It's just fabulous. |
| ... Central, taken from a tram. |
| | The tram... Being the slowest mode of transportation in HK, the tram offers the best way to tour along the 'tram road' on the HK Island. The decorations in Central are not bad, right? |
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Tripack Mon Dec 29, 2008 16:47 UTC
Happy New Year from my Snowy Alps! All the best and many travels around the World and VT for 2009 ;-) Santé et bonheur!!! Patrick aka Tripack" | tzuki Thu Nov 27, 2008 13:15 UTC
Happy belated birthdayyyy !!!:-) xxx | balfor Wed Nov 26, 2008 13:40 UTC
Happy birthday, Hero! Sorry it's a late happy birthday though! | ViajesdelMundo Sun Nov 23, 2008 21:27 UTC
Hope you hv a terrific, special day! I agree; people often say to me, 'OH, you are so LUCKY you have travelled so much!'----Luck had nothing to do with it; I just went, and on a shoestring til recently. |
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