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Beyond the Highrise

Life in Hong Kong beyond the highrise. By freelance journalist Carolynne Dear

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Recent Posts

  • Hong Kong’s secret beaches – how to escape the tourist trail
  • Sumptuous summer afternoon teas you won’t want to miss
  • How it all began – or how a suburban family-of-six bagged a party lifestyle in Honkers
  • Cruising the Mekong
  • Coffee collaborations

Travel features

  • Borneo
  • Malaysia – Legoland
  • Indonesia
  • Laos
  • Australia
  • Macau
  • Thailand
  • Hong Kong for locals
  • Copenhagen with kids
  • Miss Saigon
  • Mallorca
  • Hong Kong welcomes The Murray Hotel

Interviews

  • Everything’s rosy
  • Lonely planet
  • Old hands breathe new life into Sai Kung’s favourite pub
  • How an expat childhood inspired Soho’s New Punjab Club
  • Talking rhymes and writers block with Julia Donaldson
  • Travel writer Isabelle Demenge on putting the fun into family getaways
  • A meditation in education
  • The wonder from Down Under
  • Nurturing young readers with tales of the Chinese zodiac
  • Sketching Hong Kong with artist Lorette Roberts
  • How to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days (and survive to tell the tale)
  • Women’s advocate Dame Barbara Stocking on girls and smashing those glass ceilings
  • Novelist Madeleine Thien talks China and change
  • Nurturing a Hong Kong boutique into a global brand
  • Hong Kong’s first women’s TEDx event is launched
  • Hong Kong film producer Joanna Bowers releases The Helper Documentary
  • Mother love
  • From London to Paris on foot and by bicycle
  • Hong Kong welcomes The Murray Hotel

Heritage Hong Kong

  • Time for tea with the grande dame of Midlevels
  • Hospital drama – discovering the real Matilda of The Peak
  • Life as a British expat ‘back in the day’
  • Hong Kong welcomes The Murray Hotel

Flailing spouse – a lighter look at expat life

  • October – Food for thought
  • November – Running woman
  • December – Away in a 777
  • January – Communing with the grandparents
  • February – When I’m 45…
  • March – Homework and other issues
  • April – Drama queen
  • May – From the heart
  • June – Turn on, tune in, drop out
  • Wardrobe wars – July 2018
  • August – Hot spots
  • How it all began – or how a suburban family-of-six bagged a party lifestyle in Honkers
  • September – Party pooper

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