Sorry about the lack of posts. We've moved to a new home, and now school, home and the office are within a one kilometer radius. Paul still needs to travel outside this area though. We've purchased a couple of bikes so Maggie can ride to school and so I can accompany Alex to school, too. It takes maybe 6 minutes to ride mostly along a bike trail and about ten to walk. Our apartment building is along the Shing Mun River. There's a nice bike path that hooks up with another one across the river that goes to Tai Po - we've gone there by bike a few times, most recently (click on photo to read post):



Zoom in on the map below to see building names. Our apartment is in the upper left corner - Garden Vista, our office is in a building called Corporation Park and school is unlabeled in the lower right on On Muk Street. Don't know when another satellite photo will be posted with the school name.


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The first day we got our bikes, Paul and Maggie rode home from the shop and later in the day, Paul and I went to get takeout from a nearby apartment complex called City One. We rode a nice little loop around the area past school and along a nullah (seen in the map) - kind of drainage from the hillsides into the main river before we went to City One. We even went and did a look around a gov't run "Adventure Bike Park" that is a paved trail with hills, bumps, single track, etc inside a park just for bikes. Maggie's PE class has gone during one of their bike outings and Alex has gone to another bike track with his buddy Jeremy in Kowloon City. In fact, I took Alex to this one today after school enroute to City One's McD for a snack after school. You can see the bike park if you hit the down arrow and zoom in on the map. It is along the water and is rectangular in shape with some circular hills and curvy paths.



Here are our new bikes - they're foldable bikes made by Dahon - a 6 speed model made for the China market, but fairly lightweight aluminum frame with Shimano components and a potentially useful rack and fenders that came in handy since we rode to school in a drizzle the other day.