Hello Katherine,
I'm 46, an Australian teacher, and have been in HK for almost five years. I haven't met many men that look promising relationship wise -mostly my company has been with fantastic and adventurous like-minded women here in HK of our age! I have kept company with a Cathay pilot for about two years, but its the usual story with them - he's married, with kids, tells me the marriage is more or less over (yeah right!), he's here every two weeks, we go out and have dinner (he pays) and then we fool around, we keep up the pretence of emailing now and then, and that's about it. Suits me!! Meanwhile, I keep my eyes open, and there are some mighty fine looking Chinese men about, especially in TST, and about my height too! but they never approach. Sigh.
So, I'm into hiking, and eating, and movies, and reading on my cosy sofa at home. I love to walk new paths 'round the city (I live near Aberdeen) and discover great new markets or investigate new Chinese vegetables, talk to the stall holders (if I can), or other shoppers, about how to cook other weird looking Chinese things. I never do (cook them, I mean) but it intrigues me how the Chinese have certain seasonal fare, and I like to try it. It's all very interesting, and I have to say that I have experienced a great deal of hospitality and friendliness from the local folks. I am very grateful to them, and they deserve a great city to live in.
So, if you would care to meet sometime for coffee, just let me know. If you respond to this, I'd be happy to send you my contact details privately. Of course, you may prefer to associate more with folks from your side of the world, and in your line of business. But if you would care to break out, then I'm always up for meeting new people. Hong Kong has such a transient gweilo (foreigner) community, I find that many of the friends I started out with, have, or are about to, return home. I find I MUST keep meeting new contacts so as not to feel isolated. It's a little harder to do that when you are of our age and do not want to hang in bars at LKF.
So...give me a hoy! (That's Aussie for 'get in touch with me'!)
Cheers,
Angela.