Hong Kong

Sunday flew with Dragon air to Hong Kong for four days of meetings with my emerging market colleagues. Interesting place. For once had an afternoon to wander around and see a little bit. So I wandered around the toy market - not sure why the concierge directed an old man like me there - but was a good way to pass a couple of hours in 32 degree heat and a suit on! Well it was an English colony.

Fortunately I got a call from two of my South African colleagues who had just arrived. On meeting them in the hotel lobby bumped into the manager of our Hong Kong office who had his car with him. So  he took us up the Peak. (see picture) spectacular.

Amazing place, just the bridges and tunnels that have been built to create the city. Then the construction, land reclamation as well as the contrast between modern western (financial) city and the traditional Chinese nature, without the regulation.

On the way back lucked in again. At the airport they asked me if I would take the earlier flight. Silly question. The original later flight was delayed for 90 minutes - mechanical issues. Also I was sat in a window seat and so gazed out over the Chinese coastline. Amazing how much coast is being filled in with land reclamation. Islands are becoming part of the coast line, inlets disappearing. Massive scale.

Life about to change...