Travel Bits: November 2025

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Another month, another weekend trip..... 


Just last week, I returned from another weekend trip to Hong Kong. This was my 4th weekend trip to Hong Kong this year and my 5th trip to this southern Chinese city in 2025.

The last weekend of November will see me making another weekend trip to Hong Kong again. 

Why so many weekend trips? Did I recently strike the lottery? Of course not! I travelled to Hong Kong so frequently recently to visit my partner who is a Hong Kong resident. During each trip, we spent time together. Being a local resident, my partner brought me to places in the city that I had known but never visited. And of course, this place being a foodie's paradise, I have started trying out lots of local food that I had never tried before despite numerous trips over the past years.

This colourful building with clear blue sky in the background presents itself as a unique photographic subject, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China (2025)

Visiting and discovering new places and food in a destination city are definitely part of the perks of traveling. Each trip to the same city had become like a new trip to a new city. Same place but different sights and taste. I love traveling.

The Shing Mun River (城門河) begins in Tai Wai and meets the sea at the Tolo Harbour. Events are held in this river every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, Tai Wai, Hong Kong, China (2025)

In July, I had experienced being caught up in a typhoon (Typhoon Wipha 2025) for the first time and thus had to stay inside my hotel for almost the whole day on a Sunday while my partner was chopped up at home in another part of the city. I had previous close brushes with Typhoons in Japan but Typhoon Wipha was a whole new experience for me. Next up were the summer heat and humidity during my July and September weekend trips. Heat and humidity are weather conditions that I have always hope to avoid during my travels because in my home city of Singapore, heat and humidity are so normal that they have become part of life are just like breakfast, lunch and dinner.

This November, I am looking forward to my upcoming weekend sojourn to Hong Kong when I will get to enjoy the cool year-end weather sans typhoons. Time to pull out those sweat shirts from deep beneath my drawers in preparation for the trip.

Craving for Japanese food? Fret not, the city has lots of food options from all over the world, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China (2025)

Noodles in spicy broth with a rich complement of ingredients, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China (2025)


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