What can you say, it is already Monday again and it is almost one year ago that it was my last birthday. As I wrote before then this year my birthday and the Chinese New Year will collide on the same week-end, and then there is also Valentines day, but Valentines Day and my birthday always collide, I wonder why?In fact it was not until I left Denmark that Valentines Day got some kind of meaning. In Denmark it wasn't anything special when I lived there twelve years ago, how it is now I must admit that I do not really know. In Germany it was a bit more and in the last years I think that it got more and more established along with Halloween, the Super Bowl and other imported reasons to have some kind of party.
Anyway we are now in February 2010, and looking back one year one of the highlights was my birthday back then. We hired a little sampan and took a load of friends, wine and beer on board and sailed the waters of and around Sai Kung peninsular. It was a hazy day but with a nice temperature, so the trip just got a bit more spectacular because of the grey and hazy weather wich let the islands and hills look like locations for a B- sea monster movie.
First stop was a little island just outside Sai Kung. Years ago it was still inhabited, but now it has been abandoned for quite some years, just leaving all the buildings in a state of devastation.
Quite an odd feeling to wander around in a little village, where none has lived for years, and a look inside the houses gets you to think that the people has just left everything behind them.
Leter the Sampan -the Chinese style of boat- took us to the High Island and one of the many Sea Food restaurants around here. At High Island you also find one of the bigger floating villages here around Hong Kong, here it is a mix of floating village and fishfarms.
As always around here the Seafood is great, cheap and in good big portions to suite even the most hungry people at a big birthday party. On a normal sunny week-end these places is absolute breaking full of visitors, we had it nearly all to ourselves -when you do not consider the village dogs as anyone.
So that was last year, on Sunday another chapter in my Birthday event story are going to be written, and yet I wonder why is going to happen.
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