The last post pretty much summed up our Christmas and new year holidays. Now it's back to the grind.
We returned to Hong Kong super excited that we were back in warm weather. Even though Hong Kong residents were grumbling about the cold snap that had just swept the city (12 degrees Celsius, or approximately 50 degrees Fahrenheit), the city felt positively tropical to us after skiing in Ruka in -18 Celsius! It's all relative.
However, our apartment was disappointingly frigid. I don't think I've previously mentioned, but apartments in Hong Kong usually aren't equipped with any heat. For some reason, when it cools down just a bit outside, it becomes bracingly cold inside. When we returned from vacation, it was so much warmer outside than in our apartment that we opened all of the windows, hoping to warm up the interiors.
Two more days of shivering under the covers and walking around with thick layers, and we finally succumbed -- we bought a space heater. It seems so silly to have to buy a heater when you live in Hong Kong, but we finally took the plunge and haven't looked back.
We returned to Hong Kong super excited that we were back in warm weather. Even though Hong Kong residents were grumbling about the cold snap that had just swept the city (12 degrees Celsius, or approximately 50 degrees Fahrenheit), the city felt positively tropical to us after skiing in Ruka in -18 Celsius! It's all relative.
However, our apartment was disappointingly frigid. I don't think I've previously mentioned, but apartments in Hong Kong usually aren't equipped with any heat. For some reason, when it cools down just a bit outside, it becomes bracingly cold inside. When we returned from vacation, it was so much warmer outside than in our apartment that we opened all of the windows, hoping to warm up the interiors.
Two more days of shivering under the covers and walking around with thick layers, and we finally succumbed -- we bought a space heater. It seems so silly to have to buy a heater when you live in Hong Kong, but we finally took the plunge and haven't looked back.
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