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Trip Start Sep 2005
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Trip End Sep 2006


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Sunday, June 4, 2006

Hong Kong was great. I really like that city. It's like timetravel to another world 50 years ahead of Ireland. The airport, the transport, buildings etc are amazing. The HongKonkers seem to like living in skyscrapers. I suppose it suits their maximum efficiency ethic. Optimal use of space and all that. When you look up at the huge skyscrapers full of hard-working little HKs it would remind you of loads of little bees tucked away in their honeycomb homes. I ended up staying in a typical high-rise pea-sized room. It was tiny. You could have used it for astronaut training of pygmies. I'm only 5'9" and my feet were hanging over the edge of the bed by about 8 inches. If I were a little taller they'd have been touching the front door.

The weather was pretty lousy. It rained everyday at some stage. Without warning a mini-typhoon would start, sending everyone scuttling into doorways or MacDonalds.

The names of the places were great. If you had the time you could find loads of gems, but my favorites were "Ho's Fashions" and the "Ka Ka Lok Curry House". Almost as good as "Mr Stiffys Toy Shop" in Bariloche. The food was superb. So far I've played it safe with the food. I haven't gone any further than marinated ducks tongues. It's hard to say what the nicest thing was, but I know it was chicken of some sort because the head came out on the plate too.

The people were fairly sound. There were plenty of hawkers selling genuine fake rolexs, but after coming from Bali, they were kittens. It's a great place for just people-watching. From the severely depressed to the constantly happy ones, they are just so different from westerners that they always entertain. Jacky my landlord was good fun. Always laughing. Maybe he was charging way too much and he was laughing at the fact that I was paying it. So far the language has not been too much of a problem, but I expect Beijing to be a bit more challenging.
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