Checking my Facebook Update the last few days I realised a lot of friends are posting their year… in photos. Now here is my opportunity to give a quick review for Tim. Tim arrived in my postbox exactly 365 days ago – to clarify: Tim is my rather small (i.e. 7cm) tall travel companion – together we have checked out some awesome destinations over the last twelve months. We have travelled to 5 continents. Tim has accumulated 123,259 Asia Status miles (i.e. if I would have been smart enough to register him with Cathay Pacific he would have made it to Diamond membership straight away). He has gone AWOL 5 times, always resulting in a replacement arriving shortly afterwards at my doorstep. He visited empty beaches, sunken ships, wild Gorillas, wild jungles, crazy desert parties and never explored mountains – He even went by drone over the houses of Hong Kong (http://youtu.be/oDkDXmoJCZQ) In other words: Tim is a true explorer! So here are the stats and rankings: Countries travelled (20): Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Netherlands, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Thailand, Vanuatu, Qatar, USA, Australia, Uganda, Kenya, Congo, India Asia-Europe Flights: 14 Times on Lantau Peak: 3x Mountains climbed: Zhouda (China): 5350m (highest point reached) Mt Kenya – Batian (Kenya): 5199m Mt Stanley/ Rwenzori (Uganda/ Congo): 5109m Gran Paradiso (Italy) : 4061m Coldest Place: Harbin (Ice Festival) -32C Most explosive Place: Vanuatu (Erupting Volcanoe) Secretive Place: California (Top of Hangar XXX – errr- correction, Tim has never been there!) With so many experiences: Thanks for sharing the journey & all the best for 2015!!

Turning bionic
Monday, 17 December 2018 Beautiful blue skies are greeting Esther and me as we hike towards Sharp Peak in Sai Kung Country Park (Hong Kong). I have been fascinated by the peaks steep, rocky West...