2020 will be remembered as a year when the world got turned upside-down. With countries imposing social distancing measures and entering lockdowns, life as we knew it can never be the same again. For well over a year, streets and shopping centres packed with locals and tourists in the "old norm" are deserted. Restaurants with regular long queues in the past are now full of empty tables. Tourist buses that jammed the narrow streets are nowhere to be seen.
If there is anything good at all out of the once-in-a-century Covid pandemic, it may be the reduced air pollution reported in various cities around the world. Even Hong Kong, notorious for its urban pollution, saw clear blue skies on many a day for large parts of the year. It was on one such gorgeous day in the summer that we visited the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park and the adjacent Promenade by the north-western waterfront of Hong Kong Island.
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| Stonecutters Bridge linking Tsing Yi and Stonecutters Island |
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