A Reprieve from Festivities & Indulgence: Some Photos from Hong Kong & Beijing
Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Stiofán – Happy St Stephen’s Day (in Irish :)! We don’t have Boxing Day here in Ireland, but St Stephen’s Day or the Day of the Wren. Wrenboys will be wandering down Ireland’s roads or lanes, travelling from house to house, with an effigy of a wren on a stick singing “The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, St Stephen’s Day got caught in the furze”. You don’t see it everywhere anymore but in my mothers home county, Cork, it is an active tradition. The rest of us will spend the day visiting family, and I am just about to do that.
Before I do, my favourite books of 2011 and random-other-stuff are due, but I’ve spent the morning, and a lot of last night, reliving my Hong Kong & China trip. I finally found some time to edit the photos and am now madly craving Peking Duck & Dim Sum. Here are a few photos with proper details on everything soon.
Amazing pics! I love travelling and trying out the local foods and desserts. Sometimes with a very positive outcome and sometimes a less positive utcome:-), but it’s ALWAYS worth the experience of trying something new.
Fantastic pictures Niamh – those ducks over the wood fire, oh my!!!!! Looking forward to my next trip to Beijing in January!
Oh – fab Paul! I would love to go back for longer. Enjoy.
Wonderful photos. Those milk and yolk dumplings look beautiful. Dim sum in Hong Kong is hard to beat. GG