Long Island

On Monday we went on a short trip to Cheung Chau (meaning "long island") - one of the hundreds of islands that make up Hong Kong proper. Wikipedia can tell you more about it than I ever could, but it's a pleasant place to go to get away from the city for a bit, with some nice beaches, beautiful scenery and interesting, slightly ramshackle, back streets in the main town area. There are also quite a few small temples dotted around the place, all reflecting the past history of Cheung Chau (and Hong Kong as a whole) with gaudy shrines dedicated to gods of the sea.

When we were walking around the south-eastern part of the island, we came across an apparently inhabited house made of junk - scrap metal, old air-conditioners, stoves and anything imaginable: