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Share When I booked my flight to Hong Kong two months ago, my late April departure date seemed so far away. Now it’s a month from today! I still remember that night Tom and I decided to buy those tickets to Hong Kong. I couldn’t believe I was going to return to a place I [...] Share Peace Hotel Since my post from a couple days ago when I wrote about learning that my grandfather’s cousin had fled Germany for Shanghai in 1939, I’ve found some more information about this cousin and his circumstances. My grandfather’s uncle Karl in Germany had two children, Julius and Max Kohlhagen. Julius was the son [...] Share Have you ever had a moment where everything seemed to fall into place? I’m not talking about the day to day routines, but the larger picture. On Friday night, a genealogist cousin e-mailed me about our relatives who left Germany in the late 1930s. She mentioned one named Julius Kohlhagen who in 1939 sailed to Shanghai. [...] Share Yesterday my mom returned from a two-week trip to Senegal and Gambia, where she and a friend sailed on a week-long river cruise. (Sidenote: her flight from Washington, DC to Dakar was a quick 7.5 hours!) And in yesterday’s mail my three kids received her postcards from Senegal. For number one son, who is 13, [...] Share To prepare my youngest two kids for a week without mom and dad, I’ve been reading them a slew of picture books about Hong Kong so they’ll understand just where we’ll be jetting off to in April. Not only do they enjoy these books, but they’re already well-versed in some Hong Kong institutions. They love [...] |
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