Tatler friends share their favourite memories from summers spent in Hong Kong
Sunshine? Check. Yacht parties? Check. Good food? Check! No one does summer like the Hong Kong It-crowd. Members of the Tatler community share their favourite memories from summers spent on home turf. From learning how to breakdance and playing the bongo drums to lying on a boat in Sai Kung and attending glamorous parties in the heart of the city, when you live in a place like Hong Kong, paradise is only ever just around the corner.
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Ingrid Chen
In the summer of 2006, I hung out with my sister Charlotte a lot. We played the bongo drums with friends in a Pok Fu Lam bunker. We snuck onto random building rooftops in Wan Chai with coolers filled with drinks from 7-Eleven. We got sunburnt trying different watersports in Tai Tam and went to fancy soirées hosted by luxury brands. It felt like we spent summer in different countries because of the variety of landscapes and experiences we were spoilt with in Hong Kong. The city is a cosmopolitan beach town with jungle adventure and countryside Zen. Now that I have a family, we continue to treasure all these pockets of wonders and I have discovered even more amazing places in the New Territories and on Lantau island because of my husband, Thierry Mandonnaud.
Hong Kong is the perfect place for watersports. When it’s hot, there is nothing better than spending the whole day on the water. We take our speedboat out to discover wild beaches across the many islands of Hong Kong. Thierry surfs, kite surfs, wake surfs, free dives and does any sport that gets him in the water. We also climb waterfalls, as I loved doing that on Lantau growing up. The hot sun also makes it great to laze around by the sea with friends, a cold beer and a picnic, which I used to do a lot growing up in the Southern district. We’d beach-hop between Chung Hom Kok, Stanley, South Bay and Tai Tam. Hong Kong summers are the best.
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