Episode 51 - New time, old memories

Journey to Xiamen (I)

I have had a short holiday in Xiamen with Gogo.

The photos above were taken at Zhongshan Road. It is the main road leading to the harbour where you can take a ferry to the Gulangyu Island. Part of the road has been designated for pedestrian only, but I like the other part of it where one way traffic is allowed. The buildings erected along this part of the road are more spectacular. As you can see from the photos, the artistic old buildings are well maintained.

I gathered from the old photo albums that we had a lot of artistic buildings in Hong Kong some 40 years ago. Most of these old buildings have been pulled down and replaced by concrete forests. It's very sad that nothing was done to preserve our traditional treasures.

Walking along a road like this really brings back memories.

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