It's official...Hong Kong rocks. No two ways about it. A collection of people, action and massive (and often very beautiful) stalagmites where 50% of the population live above the 15th floor. It's fun, vibrant, and impossible to ignore...and Saturday evenings here are very unlike those in downtown Kidsgrove.
First off - God bless the original manufacturers of, and drug testers for, Zimovane. They, along with the same group responsible for Calpol, deserve Nobel Prizes to a man and women. Parents all over the world [and presumably insomniacs too] will understand my feelings. Thank you to my doctor for having the common decency to prescribe 6 tablets for me to take when the air travel distances get excessive, to the man in seat 12E on the red-eye to HK for not adopting a reclining position 15 seconds after wheels up as I feared might be the case, to my mum...and to anyone else who knows me. Here's hoping that popping pill #2 on the return journey will bring the same glowing recs. when I get back. Fingers crossed.
A good conference in a Convention Centre with a view like no other, a trip up to The Peak and a bad attack of fog that spoilt the view...but no matter, we took the tram down and that was great fun. Some amazing food at various times, and a trip on the jetfoil over to Macau today that was really beautiful - very different to HK with its noticeable Portugese legacy and more relaxed atmosphere.
My hotel is in an 'interesting' part of the city - the restaurant was deathly quiet on the evening that I arrived, but, having left it late to eat this evening and wandering down there to find something before it was too late, imagine my surprise when I entered a cavernous room thronged with HK peeps....families, couples, you-name-it, all out for a Saturday evening dinner. A great hour's worth of people-watching, so the food and the company were good value.
Would I come back? Yep...but I'd need to save up a little first. Tomorrow I shall blow the last remains of my piggy bank on some kind of round-the-harbour trip and hang over the side with my camera like a big kid....and maybe go back up The Peak if there's no fog.
--G.