Art Galleries

Ruby and I went to the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Palace Museum, whilst Kai and Warrick went for the cable car up to the Big Buddha and Tai O village.
Hong Kong Museum of Art had a special exhibition of works by Cezanne and Renoir, paintings with the same theme hung together for comparison and appreciation. We learnt that they were good friends and painted and visited together. Beautiful works of still life, landscapes and nudes. There was even Picasso 's painting to showcase the influence of these two Masters.
We started at the special exhibition and when we continued in the 4 remaining floors, we had to go back to Cezanne and Renoir again before we left. Tickets to the special exhibition was only HK$50 ($12aud) each.
As we could not find an eatery on route to the Palace Museum, we went back to Gwing Kee smoked goose restaurant.
Palace Museum was a little hard to get to and the stops weren't clearly marked on Google. So we stopped a bus stop too early and walked some to get there. Palace Museum was showcasing an exhibit of The Forbidden City and Versailles. Interesting exhibition showing the difference in the ceramic and pottery, buildings and grounds. We saw lots of people posing for selfies and photos. There was a lady posing for the camera on the steps of the Palace Museum that was most hilarious. She was a lady in mid 70's sprawled, leaning and sat in various alluring postures for the camera.
We met up with Kai and Warrick at Time Square for a spot of shopping and then dinner. Kai found a Shanghai Restaurant close to our hotel and Ruby and I decided we'd wallk to the restaurant so we could look at the shops along the way. We just about killed Warrick. It turned out to be a much longer walk then we had anticipated. The Tong Sui ( desert) finish to the meal, made up for it.Read more