Alex on Camel, Egypt
Butchers in Moshi, Tanzania
Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island
Summer Palace, China
Dorota on Brighton Beach

China

Pharmaceutical Masks photo

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 | | 0 comments | Continued
Three types on banknotes photo

Three types on banknotes

It is a bit confusing at the beginning to use Hong Kong dollars. Similar to India they have agreed to use more than one type of banknote for $20, $50, $100 and $1000. The Government, through the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, authorizes three commercial banks to issue currency notes in Hong Kong: – the Hong […]

21Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Bamboo Scaffholding photo

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 | | 2 comments | Continued
Ngong Ping 360 Cable car accident photo

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 | | 0 comments | Continued
Victoria Peak photo

Victoria Peak

Victoria Peak is a mountain in Hong Kong. It is also known as Mount Austin, and locally as The Peak. I believe it is better known as the best location in the city to watch the amazing panorama of Hong Kong. Being 554 meters above sea level, Victoria Peak is the highest point within Hong […]

20Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
Hong Kong in the Flog photo

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 | | 0 comments | Continued
Dropping stuff out windows photo

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 | | 0 comments | Continued
Fresh Fruit Juices from Hong Kong Night Stalls photo

Fresh Fruit Juices from Hong Kong Night Stalls

It became our Hong Kong daily tradition to get a fresh fruit juice produced by this really nice lady who worked at the counter. Using quite simple tools the juices were fantastic and served very quickly. As our Chinese was quite limited (Alex was trying to say ‘thank you’ in Chinese, but no one could […]

19Mar2009 | | 2 comments | Continued
Plastic food in Hong Kong photo

Plastic food in Hong Kong

I came across various ways of presenting menus: in some countries you get photos, less or more attractive, in other countries, such as India it is cheaper to pay someone to paint pictures/billboards. In China they are more creative and the mass production supports creating plastic food, which looks hilarious on restaurants’ displays.

19Mar2009 | | 2 comments | Continued
Canon HF10 High Definition (HD) Camcorder Review photo

Canon HF10 High Definition (HD) Camcorder Review

Well this is just a quick post which hopefully I will get round to edit a bit later 😉 I’ve just ordered a Canon HF10 HD camera to what is planned to be able to make some shorts of my travelling adventures. I’m not too sure how well they will go, but lets wait and […]

2Dec2008 | | 6 comments | Continued