Archive for Alex and Dorota
Seriously Big blocks of flats in Hong Kong
There is obviously a massive shortage of space in Hong Kong, it’s amazing to see so many extremely huge blocks of flats.
22Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 2 comments | Continued
Hong Kong Energy saving escalators
Well the Hongkongers here are extremely clever when it comes to energy saving escalators, all they do is switch them off.
22Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 0 comments | Continued
Hong Kong Western Restaurant
I can’t believe it, we are the only people eating Chinese food. I’m not sure how I managed to miss the Knife, fork and ketchup on the table. There are even photos of English like dishes on the table which I also failed to notice. As we sit the other Chinese here are being served […]
22Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 0 comments | Continued
Pharmaceutical Masks
This is certainly great etiquette in Hong Kong and China, if you have a cold or flu you wear a pharmaceutical mask which kills any bacteria leaving your mouth and nose. This stops the spreading of any airbourne illness. Obviously when you are in such a densely populated city this is a necesitty, I wonder […]
22Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 0 comments | Continued
Bamboo Scaffholding
There has always been something to amaze me when travelling in Asia. Perhaps one that I feel is the craziest, is the bamboo scaffolding used instead of steel. I’m sure that it works well considering I’ve now seen this used over 20 floors high, but would you dare climb it? I’m still not sure why […]
21Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 2 comments | Continued
Ngong Ping 360 Cable car accident
Great the cable car we are taking to the top of Lantau island has been shut for 6 months as a car fell off. It fell over 50 meters before suddenly being stopped by the ground. Luckily there was no one in it! They have no idea what caused the car to fall off but […]
21Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 0 comments | Continued
Hong Kong in the Flog
When trying to ask the waiter in the restaurant on top of Victoria Peak how often the fog is like this, he was rather puzzled and could not work out what we were on about. After several minutes he can back and replied “ahh the flog”. Brilliant. Apparantly March is one of the worst months […]
20Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 0 comments | Continued
Dropping stuff out windows
Stop doing this!! It’s wrong. An amusing message left outside our Hong Kong apartment this morning. People have been complaining about residents throwing objects out of the windows. What’s wrong with that from the 20th floor?
19Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 0 comments | ContinuedAquaDom/AquaDome – Berlin Sealife Centre
The AquaDom in Berlin, it was ok, although extremely hyped up. No comparison to the Great Barrier Reef… Sydney here we come 🙂
5Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 2 comments | ContinuedRafting in Köprülü Kanyon National Park, Turkey
Situated over the Köprüçay is an old Romain stone bridge spanning Köprülü Kanyon, which is still in use today. It is this bridge (Köprülü) that the fast flowing river gets its name from. The rafting here was fun, but nothing like the Futaleufu River, Chili or the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe. Here the rapids are […]
1Mar2009 | Alex and Dorota | 0 comments | Continued
