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Post by radar on Sept 5, 2016 15:27:16 GMT
I love Hong Kong. I used to enjoy sitting near the Star(?) Ferry terminal with a drink and watching the busy little ferries bustling in and out.
Sigh. I'm going to Tenby at the end of the month. More sigh.
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Post by Humph on Nov 14, 2017 22:10:44 GMT
Going back to HK and China early in the New Year. This time, I'll have a free Saturday to fill in HK on the way back having finished work in China late Friday night ( very late Saturday night flight back to UK )
Didn't really get the chance to do much touristy stuff last time other than drinks and eats, so I'm going to see if there's something more constructive/interesting I could do with my enforced day off. No doubt I can google for some ideas and surely will, but if any of the assembled company have any clean suggestions, then feel free to lob them in. I shall have from early morning until mid evening free I suppose.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 14, 2017 22:23:06 GMT
I shall be interest!
(If it was the end of Jan, you could have taken me for a pint (or the local equivalent)).
3 days there on the way out to NZ.
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Post by Humph on Nov 14, 2017 22:31:56 GMT
That's a pity, I'll miss your dates by a couple of weeks. Going early Jan.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 14, 2017 22:35:22 GMT
That's a pity, I'll miss your dates by a couple of weeks. Going early Jan. ...at least it will be a little less crowded..... ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2017 22:49:38 GMT
Try the Npong Ping Cable Car. Look it up on Google Images.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 15, 2017 11:41:25 GMT
Bambo scaffolding is used much throughout the mid and far east, seems to work fine as well as if not better than steel poles. As far as Chinese cars go have you seen the new Ssangyong Tivoli? www.ssangyonggb.co.uk/pages/new-ssangyong/tivolimakes the Dacia Duster look like an over priced skip. I like the Tivoli, and the Tivoi XL. Have recommended to mother for when she wants to replace the FIAT 500L.
But SsangYong are Korean, not Chinese.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 15, 2017 18:51:35 GMT
Try the Npong Ping Cable Car. Look it up on Google Images. ...aaah, the ping pong cable car....... ...not to be confused with the whiff whaff cable car....
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Post by Humph on Nov 15, 2017 19:37:04 GMT
Will keep that suggestion in mind, but just found out today that I might have to go to Taiwan for that day now. Never been there before, so, why not I suppose. To paraphrase Eccles, everybody has to be somewhere...
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 15, 2017 22:17:06 GMT
You will no doubt encounter/engender this joke, then....
A man takes a pair of shoes back to the shop and complains that there is a lace missing.
"No", argues the assistant, "look at that - it says Taiwan".
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 16, 2017 20:46:50 GMT
Taiwan is a reasonable distance from HK Humph. You'll be up early and off to the airport without really any time to see HK.
Quite a long day's work before you even get back to HK for the overnight marathon back to Blighty. I don't envy you!
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 16, 2017 20:49:17 GMT
Tyred: got your NZ rental car booked?! Over 1000 new Corollas registered last month here - almost all of them to the rental fleets. One in 3 cars on the road at the moment seems to be a new Corolla..!
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 16, 2017 21:12:14 GMT
Tyred: got your NZ rental car booked?! Over 1000 new Corollas registered last month here - almost all of them to the rental fleets. One in 3 cars on the road at the moment seems to be a new Corolla..! ...it's a motorhome, at an exhorbitant rate, but that's what you get if you go (just) in prime season. I hope it isn't a Corolla Last car I hired was in San Francisco (and it was a Corolla!)
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Post by Humph on Nov 16, 2017 22:18:29 GMT
Taiwan is a reasonable distance from HK Humph. You'll be up early and off to the airport without really any time to see HK. Quite a long day's work before you even get back to HK for the overnight marathon back to Blighty. I don't envy you! I don't envy me either. The Taiwan bit might not happen though. Yet to to find out. I really dont like long haul flights, even if it is in the comfy seats. I'm just not at all good at sitting still.
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Post by dixinormus on Nov 18, 2017 0:50:56 GMT
January is pretty much peak season in NZ, Tyred. Gets a bit less manic towards the end of the month as the kiwis drift back to work. Much better from 10th Feb onwards when the schools go back. Expect some congestion on Fridays and Mondays particularly, as people escape Auckland for the weekends...
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