Upon getting confirmation of my father’s lung cancer diagnosis, we immediately made plans to travel to Hong Kong and aimed to arrive before his surgery. We stopped by Maui to see my 99-year-old grandmother on Dec 11, 2022, and by Dec 14 we have already arrived in Hong Kong.
Tag: 2022
The Ho’s 2022 Recap
We are sending you our Christmas greetings from Hong Kong. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We are blessed to have many friends who supported us and prayed for us this year. Calvin’s dad was diagnosed with lung cancer in early December. Through the prayers of many friends, we made it back to Hong Kong […]
Rome
Our family passed by the outskirts of Rome in 2018 but didn’t really get to see the city. This time, we are using Rome as a hub to fly back to the US, so we decided to take advantage of it and stayed in Rome for two nights. We spent the first day walking in […]
Naples, Pompei
We took a really early flights from Athens, and arrived in Naples at 9:30am. It gave us enough time to drive around Naples to get a feel of the city and to eat the must-try Neapolitan pizzas. Our real destination was Pompei, which is only half an hour south of Naples. It was an ancient […]
Athens
We have arrived safely in Athens! My first visit of the city in 2020 was filled with fond memories. This time it is really fun to take my family around, visit my FB friend George who cut my hair back in 2020, and see things with a new perspective. I still love the relaxing vibe […]
Polis, the Blue Lagoon
We stayed in the town of Polis for two days. Polis is located on the Northwestern tip of the island. We enjoyed the relaxing vibe of the “city” center, dinning, and swimming at the nearby beach.
Stavrovouni Monastery
Gideon and I visited one of the oldest monasteries in the world, the Stavrovouni Monastery (built in AD 327 by Constantine’s mother Helena), and was welcomed by an Orthodox monk named Makarius, who explained all the frescos inside the church (no photos allowed) and also let us see the Silver Cross which contains a minute […]
Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
There was a civil wars in Cyprus in the 1970s which split Cyprus into the Northern Cyprus, which is called the Turkey side, and Southern Cyprus, called the Greek side. While we used the Southern Cyprus as our base, we crossed over to Northern Cyprus twice.
Larnaca, Sea Caves
We have arrived safely in Larnaca, Cyprus. Just a 45-min flight from Beirut, Lebanon. We checked into our hotel which is next to the 9th-century Church of St Lazarus, the one whom Jesus raised from the dead in Bethany after having been dead for four days.
Lebanon
We were invited to attend Fady and Grace’s wedding in Syria on August 21, 2022. Unfortunately, our visa applications were rejected as US citizens were not allowed into Syria because of the ongoing civil war. So we decided to celebrate their wedding with them in Lebanon in the week of Aug 28 – Sept 4. […]