Some have defined Tai O as a small "Venice of the East". To me, it stirred other memories instead. There are places that immediately take us back to others, to which we feel we belong. We recognize them as ours, we love them, we always want to return. We develop a special and sometimes inexplicable 'connecction’, and to them we reserve magical and personal moments. Other times, we need to talk about, to write about these places because, as Joan Didion said, 'A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively...'

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