Jan 11 2008
Hong Kong Still Amazes Me…
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Again, at last, I find some time and Internet access to make a posting.
We have spent the last few days doing what everyone does in Hong Kong, exploring this exciting city until your feet and leg muscles scream and and resort to cramping to slow you down.
The retail in this city is astounding, in fact you can be forgiven for thinking that Hong Kong is one large shopping center.
We have trudged the back alleys and lane ways, attempted to avoid the touts extolling the virtues of their unique tailors and copy watches, bought every new Ipod and computer devise known to mankind, loaded up on enough DVD’s and software to force us to invest in terrabyte hard drives and eaten dim sum until it hurts… I love this city!
I have been coming to this city, regularly, for over twenty years and it just keeps getting better and better. I have watched it grow from wall to wall slum dwellings, to one of the most modern cities in the world, where it’s peoples average standard of living has improved out of site, with one of the worlds LOWEST TAX RATES!!!!
Just to give you an idea of how “Out There” this city can be in it’s constant quest to be bigger and better, the photo below is of the Wampoa Shopping Center. This huge ship is smack in the middle of a new housing, business and hotel precinct that replaced a major slum area of old Hong Kong. Inside are restaurants, shops, and a cinema complex.
