So you know where the airport is .
Speaking of the HK airport, I do like it quite alot (as airports go anyway). Whatever its faults, HK Airport is still far superior than any comparable North American or European Airport in terms of its convenience, amenities and general ease of use.
When we lived on Lamma, we would try to time going home at sunset - we'd scurry in the back of the top deck, beer in hand, and be the only ones out there. Everyone else was in the airconditioned freezer inside. Loved it. Actually, that doesn't do it justice. Those times are one of my most treasured memories.
Yeah they were really in a good position to develop an airport and try and future proof it as much as possible. Something that a lot of the US and European airports cannot do so easily. For example as much as I dislike JFK and La Guardia, no idea where you would put an alternative and link it up to the city
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I'm glad the subject moved swiftly to beer on ferries. I think I'll have a beer on the ferry tonight.
I like it that in HK everything is open late. Probably said before I know.
For example, I often go to the gym at 9pm or even 10, leaving an hour or so later. Couldn't do this in England. Also means I can dodge the big crowds.
Like HK_Katherine, I have been politely given a seat on the MTR. In my case several times but, as I wasn't limping with a bad toe, I have mixed feelings about it.
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Good locally-made plain unsweetened yoghurt (from Nestle Dairy Farm).
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Ray Cordeiro's radio programme from 11.30 p.m. to 1.00 a.m. Even if you don't share his taste for Max Bygraves, we are lucky to have his kind of music five days a week.
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Numerous public toilets, generally well equipped and clean. The new ones are airy and well designed, attractive little buildings.
Decent public toilets in the new MTR stations. (The original lines, opened in the 1980s, didn't provide any toilets at all.)
Good - even, excellent - public toilets in shopping centres.
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Less obligation or need to learn the local language than in other foreign places because our language is, after all, an official one. (Perhaps this isn't a little thing.)
Public libraries with large English sections, larger than the proportion of English books borrowed.
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On the hill behind my block of flats: crickets (or grasshoppers) stridulate (I think they stridulate) so loud that they muffle the noise of the washing-machine in the next room.elle wrote:
The screams of the Koel - telling me Spring has arrived.
The bullfrog choirs during the rainy season - hilarious sounds coming from such a tiny creature.
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closedcasket wrote in another thread:
Weather has warmed up lately. My favourite time of year. Not so much cause I like the heat, but I must admit Asian legs really do it for me.Enough said.Prefab Sprout wrote:
Denim shorts.