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Dave Says:
The nice lady at the Hong Kong tourist board said we should visit a small fishing village called Tai O. The Hong Kong tourist board is pretty well oiled machine so if they say Tai O then we say “Tally Ho”. We hopped a local bus from the giant Buddha and wound down and around for about thirty minutes to the small village. Strangely for Hong Kong there were no tourists or westerners on the bus and once we stepped into the village it was obvious why. This is a town that despite it’s proximity to one of the busiest cities in the world, doesn’t see outsiders very often. Situated in a natural harbor it’s main industry is fishing but industry is putting it grandly. Small boats head out for shrimp and other local seafare but its a subsistence operation. The water is dirty and diesel spills are common yet most of the fishing is done off the bridge or from the window of the stilt houses that sit over the water. Even the fish look sick. Most commerce and most fish preparation is performed on the street. (more…)

Notations on Hong Kong by Sarah Lukacs
Sarah says:
In no particular order:

1. Fashion: Hong Kong women are *very* fashion forward. I mean, they are pushing the fashion envelope hard. Some things work, some really really don’t but they are not scared. And they are raging on white leather knee high boots. they’re everywhere on every age. you haven’t seen cute until you’ve seen an 8 year old in knee high white leather boots. I’m telling you, this city is crazy. which brings me to: (more…)

Dave says:
Well folks, we actually left. I know, I know - after months of talking about it, planning it and stressing about it, we finally boarded an aircraft to leave. Only to then have to unboard that same aircraft because of an instrument malfunction. I am, however, somewhat gald the malfunction was detected before we were airborne. Instruments are one of those things in aircraft that sound as important as they probably are. Beverage carts are the exception to that whereas not sounding important to safe flight are actually vital to the safe operation of this passenger. “Duty free” is niether an important word or function in aviation and I wish they’d stop interrupting my movie in repeated attempts to convince me otherwise. However, I digress (and likely will continue to over the next 364 days ( we crossed the date line and lost a day ( which we’ll never get back because we’re always going to heading west))). (more…)