Hong Kong and home
Here we are, day 37 and the last of my trip. Sitting in the lounge at Hong Kong, waiting for my 0045 flight that will take me back to London.
Not much to report. Managed to take in the main sights of the city, without looking in too much detail – who knows when I’ll be here again, eh? – but the weather has been crappy, such that when I arrived yesterday I couldn’t even see the Central city from the end of Kowloon. I hoped that things would improve today, but it remained cloudy and hazy, as this picture from the top of Mount Victoria shows.
HK is a fascinating city, difficult to appreciate in such a brief visit that this is part of China. The streets are teeming with people, the skyscrapers are astonishing, and although my guidebook complains about visitors’ expectations of the city being cliches – well, my cliched expectations where met.
Bobbing across the harbour on the Star ferry is something that I’ve read about, seen, and finally had a chance to do. That’s what going on holiday’s about, I suppose.
The weather was so bad that the light from the buildings took on a luminescent quality. The light from the International Financial Centre was so bright that I expected Batman to be on call.
As I was getting the ferry for the last time this evening, back to Hong Kong station and the train to the airport, for reasons I did not discover many of the buildings had their Chinese new year decorations turned off, and searchlights appeared from their roofs. Music was played across the harbour and the the lights and lasers moved around the sky, topped off with fireworks launched from the top of the towers. Okay, it wasn’t Sydney at New Year, in fact I’ve had better rockets in my back garden, but the effect was still very pretty.
My last chance to exploit the free food and drink in the lounge, so I’m off. See you all soon. Thanks for reading.
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