Comments on: Hong Kong hiking: Kat O (Crooked Island) and Ap Chau https://petespurrier.com/2024/11/06/hong-kong-hiking-kat-o-crooked-island-and-ap-chau/ Author of the bestselling Hong Kong hiking guidebooks Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:26:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pete Spurrier https://petespurrier.com/2024/11/06/hong-kong-hiking-kat-o-crooked-island-and-ap-chau/#comment-12489 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:26:27 +0000 https://petespurrier.com/?p=2611#comment-12489 In reply to Trevor Hollingsbee.

Great to hear that, Trevor! I will look into Ap Chau’s Scottish links.
I was on Kat O about 20 years ago and heard a lot of who I thought were villagers speaking in a strange language. It turned out it was Dutch. Their parents had emigrated to Holland in the 1970s, and they had all come back to visit for the island’s 10-yearly “ching chiu” festival.

]]> By: Trevor Hollingsbee https://petespurrier.com/2024/11/06/hong-kong-hiking-kat-o-crooked-island-and-ap-chau/#comment-12488 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:42:51 +0000 https://petespurrier.com/?p=2611#comment-12488 I remember from my marine lolice days that tiny Ap cHau had strong links with Scotland . Scottish accented English often heard, and Eurasian children sometimes running aout The church was very active, with the village reptesentative taking services. Formerly had a successful fish farm A former colleague told me that the church has decamped to Edinburgh. Kat O was never my favourite island, seemed rather shabby and smelly One of the inhabitants was a forner KMT soldier, who still dressed in uniform and screamed invective about Mao Tse tung all day long

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