Hong Kong (中華人民共和國香港特別行政區政府)
Well, it’s been an interesting first day in Hong Kong. Of which I’ll first have to address the really weird quirks.
- Considering how people usually describe Hong Kong to me, you guys will never believe that I was in Hong Kong with all the blue skies you’re going to see in my pictures.
- While Australia introduced a new $5 note, the new one is at least still the same colour as the old one. And printed by the same people as the old one. Neither of these two things should be taken for granted here. Though here it’s probably not a chronological thing but rather that none of the money-printing-banks is willing to agree on another bank being the official money-printer-bank.
- They’re as bad as the people in Osaka. They drive on the left and keep to the right on escalators, though with slightly less consistency.
Hong Kong is a city with quite a bit of a space problem. They’re current solutions are to build vertically till they run out of space there too, and to make the entire coastline a construction site where they are dumping dirt into the ocean in the hope of gaining more land in the process. The former makes a very interesting city line. The latter makes it a pain to navigate. But even without the excuse of a construction site, we were constantly accidentally doing a U-Turn because that’s how the walkway guided us, or searching for an entrance into a building which we needed to get into to access a bridge that only seemed to have stairs on the other end.
But the good news is the advice held. We left quite late, and everything stayed open late for us as well. At least most things. A particular clothing shop that one of us was hoping to visit was not sharing our enthusiasm after we finally found it on the 19th floor of a building with a very unceremonious entrance. Sadly, the shops that were open and somewhat electronics/computer focused, were far too focused on selling phones than actually stocking things like cables and adapters. Though I did find a Bluetooth cable. The two words together brought me into enough of a confusion that I never found out what it actually was supposed to be.
After crossing the harbour, we discovered that there was going to be a light show happening where multiple buildings participated in a synchronised light show to view from the shores that we just crossed to. The only problem with this was that not all building participated in this. So while some buildings flashed in time to some music, a lot of other buildings just kept glowing, making it hard to spot the building that were actually trying. Directly after this show, there was a 3D show happening (and with 3D they meant, curved screen), about a little elf called Eddie, that wanted to sing for Santa and apparently make our ears bleed in the process. Fun times …
