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A last weekend in Hong Kong

It’s exactly a year since I left the city where I’d spent four incredible years. One May day, I gathered friends together to walk some trails and drink some beer

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May 08, 2020
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I’m interrupting my lockdownish countdown of The World’s Most Sublime Places with some important anniversary news.

A year ago today, I was on Cathay Pacific flight CX239 to London. I’d spent four years based in Hong Kong, with regular flights back to the UK. But this time there was to be no return: I was moving back home and the expat adventure was over.

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