EDITOR’S NOTE
Funny to think that I used to get annoyed when the person beside me on a plane claimed “ownership” of the armrest with an elbow and refused to budge for the entire flight.
These days, nothing about being in the air would bother me. Not the lack of legroom; not the frozen screen on the in-flight entertainment system; not even the eight-year-old kid kicking the back of my chair for hours on end. Well, maybe that.
Really, though, I’d have zero complaints – especially if I were off somewhere nice for a holiday. That’s how much I miss travel. We all do. Still, if there’s a silver lining (pardon the coronavirus cliché), it’s how much I’ve found myself reflecting on past trips lately. From the brilliant moments, like watching the rising sun cast a glow on the Taj Mahal’s tiles or seeing the children disappear into a kids’ club for a full-day session, to the less-than-stellar times, like being rescued by rowboat after a bus crash next to the Yangzi (long story…).
At a time when we can’t travel, we can still think about it. We can ponder past journeys, as I’ve been doing. And we can dream about future expeditions. That’s what we expect you’ll do when you read this month’s Greenland story (page 94); it’s an absolute cracker. We also have a bunch of the world’s best tropical island locations for you to mentally retreat to (page 90).
Of course, we can still travel locally, and this is a superb place for exactly that. See our staycation review of the Hong Kong Golf & Tennis Academy (page 54), for example, and our hitlist of HK’s best waterfalls (page 18).
We also have the day-to-day things – life’s essentials – completely covered. School is back in session (albeit from home again, boo!), so there’s a raft of education stories, including a special focus on boarding (from page 62). Elsewhere, you’ll find advice and opinions on health, finance, property and more; we even have a tip for getting restaurant-quality croissants delivered to your door. We also wander through a home on Lantau, chat with a celebrity chef and give you the chance to win over $16,000 in children’s bedroom gear.
While we can’t travel just now, we can at least flick through the pages of a magazine. We hope ours allows you to go to all kinds of places while staying right where you are.