Hong Kong and Chinese Censorship

We have been in Hong Kong for four days and have had a great time exploring this very cosmopolitan and multi cultural city including taking in some good American cultural imperialism (Disneyland). Mostly, it has been great to catch up with some good friends and stay with them and their girls in Discovery Bay. MC and Doug have been wonderful hosts and the girls - Taia and Skye - have been great to meet. Madeline has particularly enjoyed having another young girl to play with. MC and I have known each other for 25 years having met at Queen's in the late 80s.

Tomorrow morning - very very early (5 a.m. rise) we leave Hong Kong for Guangzhou and then fly to Xi'An. I was hoping to get a half decent blog on Hong Kong published before leaving - most importantly because all blogging is illegal in Mainland China and therefore our blog will be inaccessible to us as soon as we cross the border. We have run out of time and energy...

It will be silence from the Global Family of Five unless you email us - this is accessible - and you know our email addresses. Facebook will not be available to us as well - no blogging and no social networking. I am not sure about Skype yet.

That means the next blog will be published from Ottawa, Canada as the rest of the trip is in China - Xi'An and Beijing. If I get really organised I may be able to publish in Seoul which is a stopover on our way back to Canada on 6 September.

Thanks to all our readers thus far for your comments and emails - your encouragement and interest. Its been a great deal of fun doing this and I intend to keep it going...it just may be a little less "global" for awhile!!

Stay tuned, stay safe - drop us an email....

Cheers from the GFOF