sueandstevestravels: HONG KONG SMILES

As we sit in Sydney Airport waiting 7 hours for the next flight with available seats to Auckland, we need some cheering up, and what better way to do it than to remember the things we have seen and heard in the past 2 weeks in Hong Kong that made us chuckle. Our Quantas flight from Hong Kong was two hours late which meant that we missed our connection. It happens. The reason given indeed brought a smile - the waste system has a heater to stop it freezing during the flight - it had broken down. On reflection perhaps it was a no-brainer that they had to fix it.

Thinking of waste pipes...........what about this toilet-roll holder in a restaurant in Repulse Bay??

A novel use of bamboo AND here is a better one - ROY CHAPLAIN ALERT - used with string to form scaffolding on small as well as tall buildings. Unbelievable!! Perhaps we should get growing in the garden in Knowle for the next job on the house.......

With all those years in Business and Education between us, and all those seminars and work shops sat through in the pursuit of 'Blue Sky Thinking', if only it were this easy................

This one speaks for itself. What would Marx have made of it?

Is this a Chinese equivalent of 'behind the bicycle sheds'?

Read the first sentence: that's all you are supposed to need to read.

These Areas were signposted all over the place. We thought it a delicious irony that in a city where it was impossible to avoid the constant movement of a great mass of people they should be encouraged to sit down.