New China Guest House Hong Kong

... br>On Sunday, the 29th of November I was invited by Ben's parents to have some dinner at his home in Tsing Yi. I was very excited about that and left campus around 3.15 PM and took the MTR to Tsing Yi. For once I didn't need to change to the Airport Express and could take the exit instead. Ben was already awaiting me and we took the bus which led us to the closest bus station right next to his home. At the bus station, Ben's parents awaited us and after ...

... Later that evening we grabbed some dinner at an Italian restaurant, we also road the worlds longest escalator to get there. Although that sounds intriguing imagine riding a very long escalator in the mall, pretty boring after the initial realization your going to be on it for a while. After that we headed back to the bar street to see what else was happening. We turned in pretty late. The next morning I went to mass at a Catholic Church, it ...

... I discov**ed that the gate section I was in is actually a circle, so I ex**cised my legs (and the shop assistants eyes) by going round and round and round for a while, before nabbing a single seat near the gate. Ah, the small comforts of solo travel.

I dozed int**mittently on that flight, and spent about five hours wand**ing around Frankfurt Airport (“Fraport” is what’s written on all the buses and cars and things th**e, but I think that’ ...

... way as everyone else.

As a visitor, I find the order disconcerting. But it doesn't bother the locals, and I quickly come to understand it. I have a moment of realization when I break from the crowds in the subway station at rush hour to go my own way. No sooner have I broken rank than I find myslf fighting a sea of oncoming Asians, like a salmon trying to swim upstream. I dart back to the comfort of my proper flow and breath a sigh of relief. I get it. In a ...

... anyway.. The long and short of it is people here have nothing to very little - children are poor and forced to work from being very young - we were having lunch yesterday and a little boy came up to us with a wicker tray with packets of Mentos and chewing gum and playing cards in it. He was all got up to look the part, smiling and tilting his head and pleading with us to buy. He was only 8 - his parents ...

... interesting place to stay. It is apparently an institution for cheap accommodation and is ...

... Bond Quantum of Solice and Defiance. They were both pretty good. For lunch we had beef/chicken, mashed potatoes, corn and beans and mousse with cake. It was pretty good. We had to eat with chopsticks! At one point too many passengers must have been roaming around during turbulence. Over the sound system one person was singled out (man in white) and told to sit down! LOL! Some cool stats from our flight were that it was 8,189 miles long and we flew within 300 miles ...

... Chinese restaurants and movie theaters are two things open on Christmas. So there you have it: Jewish Christmas. And what better place to spend it than in China??!! I landed in Hong Kong on Christmas eve and Beth met me at the airport. We made it back into Kowloon, met up with dan and immediately hit the road to check out the street party (one which Beth had not anticipated... hence the detour our bus took on the way back to the hotel... never beleive ...

... dropping lower than I had ever experienced. By this time, the girls we were with were lagging behind and us guys were using the extra time to catch our breath and regenerate our muscles. We finally arrived at the lodge around 5 p.m. and my legs were starting to get sore. The slow pace we took helped to save me from overexerting my muscles, but by the time we started the next morning I was no longer prepared to crawl up the mountain. After a long-nights ...

... in the 70s. There are dishes here which haven't been seen on British soil for 30 years. There's even chicken in a basket, which I last saw on a menu in a Berni Inn sometime around 1978. I never had chicken in a basket back then, and i've always wondered just how the dish is served, and what role the basket plays. So there, in a British style pub with an open front onto a Hong Kong street, I order chicken in a basket.

The meal when it arrives is a bit of an anti ...