Travel outside Hong Kong?

[ByeByeEngland]

After 20+ years in Saikung only now I discovered Campers Bay and Razor Hill. And I feel I only scratched the surface.

Won’t stop the doom and gloom merchants. You know the ones. Either they’ve left HK and have got no friends where they have relocated or they’re here and spend their entire time griping about it.

So yes if you want international travel in 2021 then HK will be almost impossible but some of us are trying to point out that is not the end of the world if coming to HK

[aw451]

What fascinates me about Tai O and probably also Peng Chau is that’s more expensive to have a meal than in the middle of HK island

Tai O gentrified rapidly after it was featured on Netflix. Within a year or two it has managed to become the new Lamma (sans gweilo, so far, due to the poor transport connections)

[Skyhook]

Yeah nah sorry HK is a pretty shit place to be trapped in compared to other places around the world. Take a look at Australia's "Holiday here this year" campaign.

https://www.australia.com/en/travel-...this-year.html

Funny you should mention this and I wholeheartedly agree with you.

Having travelled a fair amount around the world, I think I counted 117/8 cities globally when I was doing my wife's Australian PR visa, when I had to count which cities we'd both visited over the past 10 years.

I hadn't really dedicated enough attention to Australian tourism as Australia IS HUGE and was PRICEY to get around, so I prefered to venture O.S for the value for money POV..... but these days I've been camping out in the Queensland outdoors quite a bit around, 1770, Fraser Island, Rainbow Beach Noosa/Tewantin, Bribie Island back beach and Tin Can Bay over the past 12 months and absolutely loved it ! We will be venturing to the most northern point of Australia and a fair bit of central Australia ( Uluru etc ) during various school holiday opportunities with our kids this year. It's going to be awesome!


We were going to go to the USA this year, hire a large motor home and drive the entire length of route 66, North and South California also. but cant due to the covid situation over there. Will have to wait for this one a bit longer lol.

The USA, like Australia, has loads of places to go/explore if you love the outdoors, minus having to share that experience with shit loads of other people, so in a way, the lack of international tourism is a bit of a bonus for me. Me like ;-)

[Sage]

Yes, @Skyhook.

I'm just incredulous when I talk to people, say, in the states, and they say how they went of to Hawaii... why? Because they had holiday and already got the vaccine.

Incredulous about what? Assuming I understand your meaning correctly......apologies If I haven't.

Seriously, I'd jump at the chance to go to Hawaii if I was US based, even if I hadn't been vaccinated. But these people HAVE been vaccinated!

Is Hawaii covid free? So you might risk carrying the infection to an otherwise untouched island far from the modern world? I'll let someone else answer that...

And whilst it's only been me telling Geo, now that evidence is coming out, why would anyone s.t.i.l.l. believe that vaccination doesn't significantly reduce transmission?

And how does getting on a plane reasonably increase anyone's chance of catching covid any more than it would going to a restaurant or a supermarket or.... etc etc.

Covid is already freely circulating in virtually every community in the world, moving from one community to another with the same rates of infection and same strains, makes bugger all difference.

[UniqueUserName]

how does getting on a plane reasonably increase anyone's chance of catching covid any more than it would going to a restaurant or a supermarket

Surely because you're sitting in the recycled air for longer?

Also, different types of people from more places
and presumably more sealed than air conditioned restaurants with more people:air ratio?

But did I miss a new finding about air travel?

[TheBrit]

The air on planes is heavily filtered and completely changed every few minutes.

[mrgoodkat]

Also, different types of people from more places
and presumably more sealed than air conditioned restaurants with more people:air ratio?

But did I miss a new finding about air travel?

Everybody on the plane has a negative COVID test, nobody in a restaurant has.

[UniqueUserName]

Thanks! Something new I've learnt.

Found some more info here too:
https://www.dw.com/en/how-safe-is-ai...-19/a-55435284

Seems that holiday could be closer than I thought :-)

[Sage]

Thanks! Something new I've learnt.

Found some more info here too:
https://www.dw.com/en/how-safe-is-ai...-19/a-55435284

Seems that holiday could be closer than I thought :-)

The reason people wrongly assume air travel is unsafe is yet again a poor understanding of reality and risk.

Naturally air travel IS an efficient way to spread the virus from infected countries to covid free ones and thus air travel gets all this bad press, which your average worried housewife then imprints:

Planes=Bad. And even more comically, airports=bad.

Skinny tubes packed with people certainly have good potential, the unknown of course is filtration replacement rates and one can imagine a cost cutting airline skimping on frequency, and yet the data is good, covid transmission on planes seems relatively uncommon.