Friday, 14 August 2009

HONG KONG



Ah the joys of travel, on monday morning (July 13), we say goodbye to the vast open spaces of Tibet, and by wednesday courtesy of China Southern Airlines, we are in HK - drinking cappucino and eating dim sum, and where Western celebrates his 46th birthday with 4 beers and a kebab in Lan Kwai Fong. Its refreshing to be in a place where you dont need a permit to break wind, and its refreshing not to see a Chinese flag mounted on top of every crane.

HK made us homesick, staying in a wonderful appartment (thank you K+A+M) with broadband internet and BBC entertainment channel - deep joy, was Hotel Babylon ever this good? Ell bought a camera, and I a tripod. We ate too much duck, and we enjoyed a bottle of wine or the first time in 6 months. We experienced a typhoon and overslept to miss the solar eclipse.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hey, I recognise that living room! Glad you enjoyed yourselves and recuperated from the rigours of China. Are you planning on a return visit to HK?