Ship Street Playground

On week days I don’t spend much time wandering around the streets (especially with this hot and humid weather…) but I devote some time to walk around on the weekends. A few months ago I used to go to New Territories and look for big opened spaces, like organic farms and the like, but I’ve realized there are still so many little spots to be discovered not so far from home. Wan Chai is full of surprises, whether it’s that little boutique at a corner that you had missed every time you walked past, that lovely coffee shop that has a cozy terrace at the back, that health store, that park, that… oh, what’s that? Looks like a playground.
Famed Ship Street really has a little bit of everything: super hype bars and restaurants with J Senses at the forefront, exclusive J Residence, a couple of small holes in the wall that serve juices and sandwiches and, yeah, a playground named after the street. What’s special about it? Basically, that you don’t expect it there. It’s always great to find a little space that few people go to and take a rest from the bustle around. It’s just a playground, but I love the fact that it’s laid across three levels: on the first there is a plot for children, on the second there’s just an opened area and the third is a shaded area, small and not populated with flowers or green precisely, but there’s a sitting area.
Right now some workings are taking place around and it may not be as quite as it usually is but I love this spot to read or simply to take a break from my weekend tours around Wan Chai.