Summer Lovin

INGRID CHEN

In the summer of 2006, I hung out with my sister Charlotte a lot. We played the bongo drums with friends in a Pok Fu Lam bunker. We snuck onto random building rooftops in Wan Chai with coolers filled with drinks from 7-Eleven. We got sunburnt trying different watersports in Tai Tam and went to fancy soirées hosted by luxury brands. It felt like we spent summer in different countries because of the variety of landscapes and experiences we were spoilt with in Hong Kong. The city is a cosmopolitan beach town with jungle adventure and countryside Zen. Now that I have a family, we continue to treasure all these pockets of wonders and I have discovered even more amazing places in the New Territories and on Lantau island because of my husband, Thierry Mandonnaud.

Hong Kong is the perfect place for watersports. When it’s hot, there is nothing better than spending