Thank you for your assorted patience. Once you’ve finished with these, we can move on to slightly more current happenings, like our new apartment, and the start of rainy season, and May.
Not quite the picturesque harbour view.These thin skyscrapers freak me out.Three pillars.I see your three pillars, and raise you three boats.Jumbo floating restaurant. I grew up using many pairs of chopsticks stolen from here.Every good floating restaurant needs a flamboyant dragon seal.Apparently every good floating restaurant also needs a blingy, over the top, interior.The first time I read this billboard I thought it was referring to the Renminbi.Obviously the mammoth population of China accounts for a large part of this number, but it’s still an almost unbelievable road toll.These wonderful arrows on the platform line up with the train doors. And people actually obey them, making simultaneous ingress and egress possible. Truly a wonderful sight.We have reached peak tram.
Flowers are pretty.More suicidal person statues.Still creepy.This hopefully gives you some idea of the gradient.Bamboo.This was the view we could potentially have seen.Esther looks purposefully into a bleak, grey nothingness.If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a hundred times.Esther takes a picture.The snail she was photographing.Esther calmly strolls off into the mist. Apparently unafraid of the potential horrors lurking therein.The level of moss growth leads me to suspect this kind of fog is not actually uncommon.The Enchanted Forest.Peak Tram graffiti.Apparently Magritte with sign-writing in Hong KongThe very soothing ceiling of Hong Kong airport.The descriptively named “Jet Airways”.The first blue sky we saw all week – turns out all we needed to do was get above the clouds.
3 thoughts on “HK 5. Here endeth the lesson.”
Oh wow, do you think it’s the same jumbo floating restaurant? And did you eat there?
It certainly looked like it had been around for long enough to be the same restaurant. And we did eat. Sadly it was not the culinary highlight of our trip.
Ahh … The Peak. Yes it’s true that the fogs are a regular feature of life on The Peak. Those in Hong Kong who couldn’t afford to live on The Peak always rubbished it because of the fog … I can’t quite remember the epithet used, but something about the year-round fog being interspersed with a few days of clear weather during which you got to enjoy those views you paid many, many millions of dollars for. And for the rest of the year you sat inside and watched your house and goods and chattels being devoured by the mould!
Oh wow, do you think it’s the same jumbo floating restaurant? And did you eat there?
It certainly looked like it had been around for long enough to be the same restaurant. And we did eat. Sadly it was not the culinary highlight of our trip.
Ahh … The Peak. Yes it’s true that the fogs are a regular feature of life on The Peak. Those in Hong Kong who couldn’t afford to live on The Peak always rubbished it because of the fog … I can’t quite remember the epithet used, but something about the year-round fog being interspersed with a few days of clear weather during which you got to enjoy those views you paid many, many millions of dollars for. And for the rest of the year you sat inside and watched your house and goods and chattels being devoured by the mould!