Season's Greeting

Dear Friends and relatives,

Another year is coming to an end, we hope you & your family have been well & healthy and 2006 has been a fruitful year.

2006 has been the most interesting year (yet) for us. At the beginning of the year, we packed practically all our belongings into a warehouse and took on a 3-month French language trip, staying 6 weeks in Antibes (South of France) and 6 weeks in Paris (online diary, and tour info is shown below). It has been a wonderful experience to become full time students again and the fact that it is our first and only time as students together. Learning a new language has widen our horizon and enable us to become part of some new, friendly and interesting culture communities. Most importantly, through this journey we have learned and reinforced some of the ideas on life that we believe in and very much treasure. And we want to share them with you below.

To keep up with the adventurous spirit, we are going to Nepal for Christmas and hopefully, we will bring lots of pictures back to show you in Januray.

We wish you a very happy and prosperous 2007!

Best wishes,

Irene and Dominic - December 2006

• Freedom and flexibility: While we were packing for our trip, we come to realise we owned so much stuff that we don't need. Our freedom and flexibility are being eroded by the ever more things that we possess. During our 3-month stay in France, we survived on the very basic and we didn't miss anything that we have left in the warehouse. Moreover, happiness isn't measured on things that you own, it depends on your attitude towards life
• Never stop learning: I believe people feel happy when they learn something new. When we were kids exploring the world around us, every small thing that we learned is a giant joyful step. we felt like kids again through learning a new language, we spoke like a child when we tried to converse with other people utilizing a very limited set of volcabulary
• Never lose your child-like curiosity and fascination towards life, people and the world

Independent Consulting
We returned to Hong Kong in April, and made another important decision this year - we have become independent consultant and taking on our own contract work, I work on business consulting projects while Irene works on marketing related work. We have been doing some very interesting and enjoyable projects and also appreciate the flexibile lifestyle

Leglessbird reborn
This year also marks the new Leglessbird platform, since the original site was launched in June 2002, we have gone through two major upgrades. The new platform comes with a membership system, better formating and section control. We will continue to provide information on Travel, Restaurant, Hiking, Movies, Reading etc, we are adding more events and charity functions. With all the added functions and features on a more robust platform, we plan to expand and promote the "Leglessbird" concept to everyone, if you agree with the Leglessbird principles and want to participate in our events, feel free to sign up as members, simply visit the website and click "Register" on the right hand column! Leglessbird

One of the best restaurants we have tried this year is Le Marron
Cuisine: French in Causeway Bay, 12/F, Ying Kong Mansion, 2-6 Yee Wo Street
+852 28816662. For more information

Before SunriseBefore Sunsetare not new movies, but we have only watched them this year and they are highly recommended
Romantic, USA 1995, 2004
My rating: 5 stars
Director: Richard Linklater
Key actors/actresses: Ethan Hawke - Jesse; Julie Delpy - Celine

Jesse is an American student who lives in Texas, he is on a vacation in Europe and Celine is a French girl on her way back to Paris. They met by chance on a train and started a conversation, they felt there was an intense connection, a connection that most people don't even find during their entire life. Jesse is catching a plane to USA from Vienna the following morning and crazy as it might sound, he asks Celine to get off the train at Vienna and spend one day with him and they will part at sunrise. The brief encounter turns out to be much more than they have expected, what future holds for 2 people who have lived separate lives on two far apart countries until today...

TravelAs far as travel goes, we have been seeing a lot of places thanks to our French language trip and Irene's master graduation in July. You can visit our travel section for more photos of France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Slovakia, Jersey, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo.
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For enquiry of tickets and hotels, please contact our travel agent Guidance Travel +852 3598 4873 email

The best way to learn a language is to study in the country that speaks that language. If you are interested in our tour in France, click for
more information.