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Robbie Ames, 39, is director of golf at Cinnamon Hill Golf Course in western Jamaica.

Foreign Correspondence

Q: The Year of the Dragon begins Jan. 23. What is Chinese New Year like in Hong Kong?

Foreign Correspondence

David Fyfe, 71, is a native of London. He retired as a math professor at London's Kingston University, then served as a foreign-exchange student consultant for Kingston.

Walter "Yukon" Yates, 87, is a native of Kingston, Ark., who lives in Texas. His nickname comes from decades living in the Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska as a miner, bush pilot and frontiersman.

Donna Morris, 51, is a professional trip planner in Paris (www.bestfriendinparis.com), where she has lived for five years. Morris is originally from Granite Falls.

Richard Kirby, 46, is a marine biologist teaching at the University of Plymouth, England. He is originally from Sussex, in southeast England. Kirby has lived in Plymouth off and on since 1992.

Foreign Correspondence

Margot Bigg, a writer from Portland, Ore., lived in New Delhi, India, for four years and authored "Moon Living Abroad in India" ($19.99; Moon). Bigg, 30, is now based in London but recently returned to the Indian capital to research a second book.

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John Bordsen
John Bordsen is the Travel Editor for The Charlotte Observer.