Your peripatetic reporter went last week (March 2016) to visit a mineral show in Hong Kong, which by the way has been suffering the coldest winter/spring of the last 100 years. (At one point this year temperatures dropped to an unheard of 3°C [38°F], and were still only in the 50's when I arrived this early spring - very chilly for the locals.) No, this was not the much-publicized huge new mineral show that just started in June 2015, and which unfortunately falls on the same weekend as the Sainte Marie show, but rather the small club show organized by The Mineralogical Society of Hong Kong, with many thanks to its indefatigable officers Sam Yung and Anthea Strickland, in the auditorium of the Boys' and Girls' Club building. The show, now in its 10th year, has expanded from one day to two (Friday and Saturday), usually on Easter weekend, which is a long holiday weekend in Hong Kong, and which of course means the dates are different every year.
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