So, overseas huh?
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006So, finally made it to Hong Kong! Leaving Melbourne we managed to get our flight delayed by 2 hours because some fellow in Adelaide brought sand onto the plane, but someone identified it as a ‘mysterious powder’ so it had to be closely examined. Nice one. Then once we were on the plane, an incoming pilot had apparently heard or seen an ‘explosion’ on the runway, so there goes another 20 minutes! Where do they find these people?
But once actually in Hong Kong we had a great time. We went on a day tour around Hong Kong Island and went to a market there. I took heaps of photos, but I’m still trying to put them up, work in progress!
It seems like they have a huge amount of faith in bamboo here. I knew they used it instead of scaffolding sometimes, but it turns out they will cover a whole building in the stuff, with the characteristic green cloth. Can that stuff really be that sturdy? After the tour we went for a stroll down Nathan Road, called the Golden Mile. It’s an amazing street full of people and neon Sony lights, and a random food court where we had dinner, and no-one could speak english - very authentic!
I saw a couple of random things in Hong Kong:
- A guy arc welding on a floating restaurant
- A guy with a non battery-powered angle grinder in the middle of a floating fishing village
- About 4 policemen texting thier mates
- Double-Decker buses.
- Double-Decker trams!!!
Now it’s on to London! Apologies if there are spelling/grammar mistakes, sleep on longhaul flights is hard to come by!
--> So, finally made it to Hong Kong! Leaving Melbourne we managed to get our flight delayed by 2 hours because some fellow in Adelaide brought sand onto the plane, but someone identified it as a ‘mysterious powder’ so it had to be closely examined. Nice one. Then once we were on the plane, an incoming pilot had apparently heard or seen an ‘explosion’ on the runway, so there goes another 20 minutes! Where do they find these people? (More...)