Posts tagged with "travel"

A Comfortable Fellow

I met one of the coolest, most out­spo­ken peo­ple the oth­er day. He was a Chinese man, I’m guess­ing in his ear­ly 60’s, who was an asso­ciate of my uncle’s. Somehow, he kept thank­ing my uncle for favours with­out mak­ing things awk­ward (I’ve always been a ter­ri­ble thanker, which is part of the rea­son I’m hes­i­tant in receiv­ing gifts). He spoke with a boom­ing voice, and used English expres­sions mixed in with his Cantonese dia­logue, the way Russians would use French in the 1800’s.

Golfing At The Old Airport

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I had the chance to do some night time golf­ing at one of the more pop­u­lar Hong Kong dri­ving ranges. It’s great to be able to prac­tice at night because of the cool weath­er and how beau­ti­ful the city is with all the lights on. I bor­rowed my uncle’s tita­ni­um shafts (which felt so great to swing with), and had the best hour of golf in my life. For some rea­son, even though I had­n’t been out on the course a sin­gle time this year, every­thing came togeth­er in my golf game and I was hit­ting more con­sis­tent­ly than ever. The entire prac­tice has let me know that I’m not com­plete­ly hope­less now when it comes to golf, and that I might con­sid­er trad­ing in my alu­minum shafts for tita­ni­um ones.

To The Mainland

I got my visa to China approved, good enough for two vis­its, and booked a five day trip to Beijing. I’ve nev­er been to the main­land, and I’ve always want­ed to see the Great Wall. I’ll also get the chance to vis­it places such as Tienanmen Square and the Forbidden City. The flight is only a cou­ple hours from here to Beijing, and the tem­per­a­ture there can match the chill of Canadian win­ters. The weath­er reports all say that it’s snowed there so it should make for some great scenery. My flight leaves in a few hours, and I should be back some­time on Sunday. I might do a trip to Shanghai lat­er on.

The Streets Of Hong Kong

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I vis­it­ed Bird Street, Flower Street, and Fish Street yes­ter­day, per­fect exam­ples of how Hong Kong has devel­oped in a very con­cen­trat­ed man­ner. Each street is one long row of stores relat­ed to one type of thing, and peo­ple can come to shop around from an over­whelm­ing selec­tion of a spe­cif­ic mar­ket. Bird Street was the most inter­est­ing though, because it starts off as a stone walk­way with signs warn­ing that no dogs are allowed. The walk­way is sur­round­ed by trees on both sides, and peo­ple con­gre­gate there to hang their birds in their cages on the branch­es, and social­ize. Walking fur­ther on, one is greet­ed by end­less rows on rows of birds in front of stores. The sound of birds chirp­ing can be thick­ly heard from the street over.