Asia
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
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 | Dorota and Alex | 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
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 | Dorota and Alex | 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 | Continued
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 | Dorota and Alex | 2 comments | Continued
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 | Dorota and Alex | 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
